Cope by Saint Lune

A message from Mary:

Fate has a funny way of creating the things it sees fit and just making those things work. Nothing about Saint Lune should have worked in the beginning. We all were from different areas of the country, loved different things, listened to different types of music, had different ideas of what the kind of music we wanted to create was. But that’s the thing about fate. It just knows exactly what it’s doing, where you are going and who you’re going to meet.

I met Dakota Maykrantz in the emergency staircase of 160 Massachusetts Avenue, climbing our way to our brand new dorm rooms, as the elevators were small and took to much time to use. Little did I know, he would become my best friend, anchor, drummer and producer this past year. He sat and listened through all my late night antics and early morning thoughtfulness and for that I am forever thankful. I have been blessed with wonderful bandmates that I am so proud of. I’m thankful for each and every single one of these men, each playing a vital role in who I am today. They’ve all brought sunshine to my life, even when I thought the sun would never peek through the clouds again. You all are so talented and I thank you for your patience and laughter, even when things got dark. Dak, John, Nate and Patrick, you have all brought a different colored light into my life this past year, creating a beautiful array of color in my life and I am forever changed because of it.

This record is filled with every emotion on the spectrum and as I kept writing for it, the more I recognized my subconscious floating to the surface and I realized I was ignoring many of my emotions that I had been suppressing for a long time. I was coping. Coping with rejection from a group of peers, breakups, assault, all the details unnecessary today but still extremely painful. I had this weight deep within me that was keeping me down and hurting my ability to thrive. Through the writing of this record, I found release. Writing was a salve to my emotional wound and a way to let go of the bad and turn it into a lesson and perhaps something more beautiful. Of course, I can only speak for myself and what these songs mean to me, I can’t tell you what they mean to the guys. But for me, these songs were a means of healing and trying to let out every negative emotion I had pent up inside about my past.

This record fluctuates and breathes like ocean waves. I hope you listen all the way through (yes, that means front to back!!). I hope you hear every word and intention and hold them in your heart for a moment before releasing them back into the universe. Thank you all for your love and patience.

Be kind to each other.
Mary

Melodic Mathcore from Boston, Mass.

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