Yeah, what's gloomy about Codex? Or motion picture soundtrack for that matter? Or exit music for a film? Or How to Disappear Completely or Climbing up the walls or let down or wolf at the door or fake plastic trees or high and dry or you and whose army and talk show host and and...
All of these songs, and every other song I can think of, is about crushing anxiety through a lens of depression or war or suicide or guilt or alienation or powerlessness. Fucking every. Single. One.
Even the more innocuous tracks like everything in its right place contain references to confusion or discomfort of some kind. And it goes all the way back to Pablo Honey.
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