“OH MY SAD GOD/Look at what we’ve become/I thought I believed/But was I the only one?”
Sung by Floating Room’s Maya Stoner, these lyrics speak to the feeling of weaning yourself off someone else’s Kool-Aid—they’re the howl of someone who’s realizing they’d been conned into worshipping a false idol. The lines are the centerpiece of “Sad God,” the opening track on Floating Room’s terrific full-length debut, Sunless, out now on Good Cheer Records.
“These songs are not about heartbreak as much as they are about abuse of power,” Stoner says over email. The album’s 10 dazed noise-rock tracks sound disoriented, like they’ve crawled out from under a rock and are squinting against blinding white sunlight. That’s not to say Sunless is sad—these songs are numb and tingling, more caught in transition than preoccupied with the past or the future.