Dwindling Beauty (let's Fake Our Deaths Together) by Hawksley Workman

Hawksley takes a darker contemplative turn on his latest release Dwindling Beauty. The song is a meditation on emptiness and giving up, a roughly drawn escape plan, questioning, what if we just gave ourselves over to the despair? “Let’s fake our deaths together… I think it’d be best if we both just walked away”, pleads Workman in the song, lamenting, “I think the universe is trying to tell me nothing, like it’s run out of good things to say”.

Though Dwindling Beauty feels like it could have been written this morning, it was penned in Montreal during the winter of 2019. Produced and mixed by Marcus Paquin (Arcade Fire, The National), the song follows Workman’s capitulation, "one day we'll get tired of the grudge, we've held our hates so close for so long it's hard to know where it ends, and our real selves begin”.