#EIA

[birdie-in-arcadia]

Absolutely in love with this. Might even be my next tattoo. Take Aim is in my top three favorite songs (because who can pick only one favorite?) and EIA speaks to me in a way that no other album has. 10000/10 no notes <3 <3

Take Aim crest in the style of EIA

All inspiration credits go to the original artist of course- Alex Tillbrook

Colour version under the cut

[bonncy]

eia vessel

[nilusart]

Painted him because EiA's color pallette is so pretty.

[shittybundaskenyer]

will you halt this eclipse in............... MEEEEEEE???

[pjxckson]

Come now, swing wide those gates

'Cause I have paid my penance kindly well in time for judgment day

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Even in Arcadia

[awingedinsect]

Come now, swing wide those gates

‘Cause I have paid my penance kindly well in time for judgement day.

[vangs0]

I am the final dawn, I am the flood

[hypnotise-the-vessel]

I keep seeing people talking about provider and I will say it once again, that song feels like Vessel being desperate. Trying to change himself for a person who doesn’t want the real him. Who only wants to have a part of him. In this case, the sexual aspect. He is fitting himself into a shape that isn’t *right* (no disrespect to anyone who found it sexy and fun btw) it’s uncomfortable, it feels wrong. Until we hit the part where he sings “your fingers, foxtrot on my skin.” Annnnnd that. When we hear “our bodies converse like old friends.” That.

That is where the real Vessel is again. His romantic words, his ache. His need for this to work out. The real depths of his emotions. They are so far from shallow. But he wants it to work out so badly (this time) he sings. This time. He will make it work. It’s desperate, it’s wanting to be the provider, the sexy lust-filled person that his lover wants. And it does not feel like the Vessel we know. And I think that is so on purpose. (Or maybe he just had fun writing a sexy song lol.)

[deadpage440]

Ascensionism

Im sick rn so got nothing to do other than draw.

[theforbiddeneden]

EVEN IN ARCADIA ART BY ALEX TILLBROOK

FULL CR TO ALEX TILLBROOK

Look to Windward

Emergence

Past Self

Dangerous

Caramel

Even in Arcadia

Provider

Damocles

Gethsemane

Infinite Baths

[melit0n]

A lyric that originally confused me a bit in Provider was, "your outer shell; your secret insider." At first, it seemed a bit of a backwards juxtaposition, one that didn't match up as well as others in their discography.

My first thought was that it was referring to being someone's 'protector' of sorts. Existing as a hardened exoskeleton, yet simultaneously managing to settle under the skin of the very person they're shielding. Barely even there, but making a home where it's well deserved.

Then, I remembered the chemistry motif. The "outer shell," typically refers to the last 'shell' around an atom, otherwise known as a valance shell. Basically, electrons surround a nucleus in varying levels (first shell holds two, second holds eight, the third eighteen etc.), and, the number of electrons on the furthest shell decide its chemical properties (how reactive it'll be, is it flammable etc.), and, if it'll be "acid or alkaline."

Neat little possible callback, I thought.

Furthermore, if an atom has an incomplete outer shell, it'll be unstable, but through a covalent bond (in non-metals), can be stabilized if another molecule shares it's electrons.

In short, they become equal; on stable ground with one another. To be someone's "outer shell," means to have a chemical, balanced bond with them; to keep them steady.

I think that really fits, considering the title of the song.

[bonncy]

[atokenforsleep]

Despite telling myself I wasn’t going to do another

- Behold, Drag Me Under crest in the style of EIA

All inspiration credits go to the original artist of course- Alex Tillbrook

Colour version under the cut

[under-the-knife]

Gethsemane // Sleep Token

[tombofmemories]

Sleep Token / Dangerous

[fluffedlavender]

First sleep token art and of course had to do our bass boy III💙💙