01 / EXPLORE
somewhere below the surface
there's more down here than you think.
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about damian
damian michaels is a Vancouver-based artist making music somewhere between the sacred, the profane, and the profoundly unserious. some are tender. some are shameless. some only make sense after they're gone.LISTEN ON SPOTIFY
sometimes nobody comes looking.
isolation doesn't always look dramatic. sometimes it's sitting in the bathroom at 2 AM, holding on to a lot of grief wondering if anyone else hears the noise under the water.
not everything comes back.
01 / INTRODUCTION
behind the lyrics
the stories don't always end where they started.
explore lyrics, annotations, artist Q&As, and the occasional questionable explanation on Genius.READ ON GENIUS
02 / EXPLORE THE LYRICS
explore the lyrics
two sides of the same sea.
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03 / FROM THE ARCHIVE
notes from below
it's not about building a world from scratch…
…it's just noticing the strange one we're already sitting in.
there's a specific kind of quiet that happens right before you sink below the waterline.that's where these songs tend to come from.
unseen sea
different voices. overlapping stories. occasionally contradictory accounts.meet the people behind the music and explore the wider collective.MEET UNSEEN SEA
then there are the fish.
the ocean metaphors, strange creatures and tiled bathrooms all belong to the same place. so do sex, grief, desire and friendship.the truly strange parts aren't really an escape from the ordinary. because after a while, the ordinary starts looking pretty strange too.
