freak ! freak ! freak !

what i find curious about nightshift superstar, if it is about Elle, is that it’s kinda Matt acknowledging that he knew from when he first met her that she was a party girl that enjoyed party drugs. and he clearly did like that aspect of her personality at the start - but going into like cryogen / space debris and what’s he’s mentioned in interviews. it’s either her dependence on them became distancing and dangerous, or he expected her to step back from that lifestyle after having kids, or both tbh

the whole album reads like a relationship summary, turning to ‘higher power’, in matt’s case, fucking alien technology space shit, reconnecting with his relationship to music and i would guess he’s had some therapy in the last year or so