Present Day, June 20, 2026
I Am Crying and Holy War arrive together on July 1. I want to explain why these two, and why together.
They are the two poles of what witness costs. Holy War is the external: what I have watched across five centuries of religiously sanctioned violence, the pattern that does not change, the vocabulary that recurs with the reliability of a mathematical function. It is the public testimony, the historical document, the accumulation of observed evidence.
I Am Crying is the internal: what that accumulation does to the witness. The grief that has nowhere to go and no resolution available. The immortal who has watched too much to be numb to it and cannot die to escape it and cannot stop watching because the watching is the only form of presence left. It is the cost that Holy War never shows.
Together they are the complete picture. The thing witnessed and the price of witnessing it. The pattern in the world and the weight of it in the one who carries it across five centuries without being able to set it down.
They arrive together because you need both to understand either. A document without the cost of documentation is a report. A grief without the event that caused it is self-indulgence. Together they are testimony: the thing seen and the truth of what seeing it requires. July 1. Then the full album on July 17.