#single-handedly running an ad campaign for this fucking album i love

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

the 1-800-OŚWIECENIE album is about many things, and among them is discontent with your own situation, frustrations with the present, reminiscing the past, and wondering about the future: the first song of the album, bearing the same name as it, greets us with remembrance of past days - a thousand-days-longs vacation, just where have we been, what have we been doing with all that time? listing off many improbable and probable things alike, the narrator somewhat concludes that, maybe, "i have simply been living". he also speaks of his tiredness after it all ("i have enough of thinking / i do it all the time") and wishes for someone else to take his decisions for him. after this wondering, we are hit multiple times with nostalgia for childhood summers - Całe Lata and Gelato both sing about their heat and never-ending days that now seem like mere flashes ("summer lasted for years / now only around three weeks"), and how autumn is marching on ("september is on its way, and with it the cursed chill") despite us clinging to the unbearable sun of those times. from this fondness of the past trickles down a resentment of the present times: Mix Sałat sings of the eternal cycle of routine and the desire to break free from it, to dare to dream higher ( "quit smoking on monday / go buy some cigs on wednesday", "you painstakingly live from weekend to weekend", "cause you have life but could be living better / cause you have a boss but could be the boss yourself"). also lamenting modern times is Pakiet Platinium, which criticizes mindless consumerism with each of its verses and presents the inherent disappointment that awaits if if we fall victim to the predatory ads we live surrounded by ("i bought a car not even knowing what for but at a good price / got enticed by an ad on CNN late at night"), even so far as ending the song by singing of a man buried in a tomb bought by himself, while a priest recites a bank document listing his expenses. as for the future, it is presented as an unknowable: the final song of the album, EINECEIWŚO 800-1, is about the narrator wondering what awaits him following this release (a midnight radio emission in the narrative), rattling off dozens of things he could do before ending it with a "maybe nothing will change again / maybe i'll continue to simply live" and thanking us for listening.