#theeffects

This fall, Dischord will release Eyes to the Light, the debut album by Washington, D.C. trio, the EFFECTS. 

Formed in 2014, the EFFECTS are Devin Ocampo (Faraquet, Medications), Matthew Dowling, and David Rich. The record includes 9 songs recorded and mixed last year with J. Robbins at Magpie Cage in Baltimore, Maryland and will be out on CD/LP/Digital September 29th. 

Covid-19 IS THE reason we should be dealing with mental health, but instead WE ARE CHOOSING to ignore mental health. It is rather remiss of us considering mental health stands between us and illness, in many cases a terminal illness and death.

Covid-19 and Social Isolation

In the pandemic, we're seeing a dip in mental health. There is still an increase in social isolation for specific groups and communities around mental health and overall wellbeing. With lifting restrictions, people are still disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

It is important to continue to mitigate personal health

We're still living in a pandemic, therefore it is important we continue to mitigate our personal health and its effects. The pandemic, is still being talked about on social media, parents talking about the lack of mitigating circumstances in schools, reinfections and their children getting sicker and sicker. Children have died from Covid-19.

Children are getting sicker

Every day their children go into school, they're having to continually mitigate the effects of personal health risk factors. Covid-19 isn't done with us, and yet the majority of us are ignoring it, like it's gone.

'Treading Water'

Currently, I am treading water. Trying to fit into my life with the virus is something I struggle with. I don’t want to reside in the past, because that’s not healthy and I’m struggling to move forward, because I am having to continually mitigate for my own health in the pandemic, while many people think it's gone and it's largely being ignored.

Like many people caught up in the same struggles, what exactly is it going to take for perceptions to change?

from The Catalogue of the Universe

To see the gods withdraw, dethroned, exposed to ridicule, was our allotted truth – and not without its suffering.

They weren’t dislodged by other, stronger gods: they simply came to nothing. That line of enquiry closed.

With space-time there are rules on how to leave completely: accrete, accrete, be massive, wait, grow obsolete, begin

to shrink, speed up, cave in, collapse and vanish – and amid the photographs of supergiants, red dwarfs,

the neon spiral nebulae, is this rudimentary study done with a compass and a pencil: Black Hole (Artist’s impression).

In modern death no light escapes. You cannot see it only note the wobble of the bodies on their axes, in their orbits.

In Cookstown District Cemetery hundreds pack the graveside till mid-hymn, a dog gets free: the animal I cannot see

only how the faces turn, one-by-one and radiant, to watch the mongrel running masterless among them.