Sunday Sound Check 10.5.25

This week’s Sound Check lives in the gray areas — light and shadow, hope and heartbreak, clarity and confusion. Each track carries that haunting duality, with immersive soundscapes that let you feel both the weight and the release of emotion.

We already touched on Sleep Token’s “Caramel” in this week’s Frequency Pit post — a deceptively upbeat song with bittersweet lyrics about inner conflict and the weight of identity. The line “I thought I got better, but maybe I didn’t” echoes for anyone who’s struggled with mental health. It’s a reminder that healing isn’t linear — sometimes it loops back on itself.

So, between Caramel and the rest of this week’s list… yeah, who hurt me? 😅 (JK…I have a list)

“Spectral Shivers” – City State

A poignant depiction of how we can drift apart until we’re only ghosts of what we once were. It feels like standing in the shell of a memory — haunted not by anger, but by absence.

“Dark” – Catch Your Breath

A brand-new release, and it hits heavy. If Spectral Shivers is about becoming ghosts, Dark is about chasing them — longing for what’s gone and haunted by the shadow of what used to be.

“Lucid” – Dreamwake

Ethereal, dreamlike, and full of tension. Depending on how it lands for you, Lucid could be about a love that was paradise… or one that turned toxic. It’s that blurred space between dream and reality, where you can’t quite tell if you’re waking up or slipping deeper.

“If You Loved Me Then” – Bleeding Verse

This one doesn’t dance around the pain. It’s raw, blunt, and aching with questions — longing for how things used to be, while confronting the shift head-on.

Across all of them runs a thread of coldness, dreams, and ghosts — reminders of how love and loss often live in the same frequency. They’re the kind of songs that don’t just play in the background; they haunt you, lingering long after the last note fades.