Panopticon
The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness

Release Date: 2018 | Tracklist

There’s nothing darker than Appalachian night.

I live in central Kentucky, just south of Lexington, but my grandparents live in Harlan County. My mother is from there as well, so naturally, we’d take the drive down and visit pretty often. I remember an evening when I was much younger, when I was shown that kind of darkness for the first time. My mother and grandfather drove me out into the hills not far from their home, as the sun set. There were no streetlights on wooden pillars. No houses nearby giving off the faintest of rays. The only light came from the car. So we stopped, and my grandfather turned off the car. The headlights went out, and for the first time in my life, I saw absolutely nothing. But I heard everything else. The birds calling had made themselves clear, the rustling of wind against the leaves was pronounced. It felt like every living thing on that mountain was watching us. That they had every advantage and I had none, because I did not belong. I’ve never forgotten that feeling.

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