The single is a double feature: I have two songs on it—"Drown" and "Mind Crossing." It's heavily inspired by Boy Pablo/Lorde with a mix of Mitski as well in the lyrics, and plays with the themes of headspace, and belonging.

Tamago released Reciprocal View of the Seashore – their upcoming single, on 23 October 2020. Reciprocal View of the Seashore is available on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Pandora, and all other media services providers.

Drink water, wash your face everyday, get enough sleep, and remove stress from your life and you’ll get clear skin! Guaranteed! Oh that doesn’t work? Try buying my product! “why is acne so strange?” is a piece written that attempts to question the social standard of clear skin. Join us while we unpack beauty expectations imposed on us by greedy capitalists, and dive deep on why we believe that having acne is an ODDITY.

thumbnail by: Pete Devito

Social norms have repressed childhood interests into the vessel termed ‘forgotten oddity’. The fast-paced working world of today has coerced us to leave our childhood fantasy and dreams behind, to grow up and adapt to a ‘mature’ reality.

Thanatos, death incarnate, sits with an arrow poised to his neck.

On reconciling chronic childhood fears and finding balance in a sprouting identity. A haunting in two parts: dreams and reality.

Thumbnail is from the 2004 film The Taste of Tea

People tend to judge others simply because they are different. “You look weird,” they say. “What a weirdo,” others say. Do these words actually matter? Not really. Do we take it seriously and become anxious about how we look? Most of the time, yes.

A human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; on then is a human being at all tolerable to behold.

It happens rather often that I find myself lost in the wastelands of my own minds. Hazy fleeting scenes of a desert made out of millions if not trillions of fragmented thoughts.

Hate pears all you want. Love mismatch socks all you want. Think out loud all you want. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Speak up for what you believe.

The moment we are born, various labels are immediately stuck onto us, both by people whom we care for and not. But not all those labels will stick, and then we’d be called the odd one. Yet, what is so odd about being our true selves?

A good mindset is probably the best thing someone can have, It is our job keep it straight and not have it on a line we do not want to cross, With a good social mindset we can easily fit in and relate to other people, A good mindset does not always mean having to fit in, we can also stand out of the crowd and be the odd one out.

A poem about how love and peculiarity come together, creating chaos and wonder. Emma and Jacob are teen lovers who struggle with their shared past and the difficulty of fitting in. This piece is also about celebrating destiny and oddity, embracing them as reason to live. photograph by John Von Noate.

Are the things we call odd, actually odd, or do they look odd? Growing up on “spot the difference” activities I think has trained me to associate “oddity” so heavily with physical representations of the word, like physical features or clothing. And consequently disregard our interests and personal experiences which make up our oddities just as much. So, here’s a recreation of the childhood activity, but with a twist, could you find the difference?

Reminisce is about finding joy once more in the things you cherished in your youth, no matter how “odd” or “weird” it was. It’s reclaiming the peculiarity you felt at 13. The fire of your obsession over a certain piece of media in the past is reignited, now with a feeling of fondness and nostalgia. It’s holding your 13-year old self and telling her it’s alright to like things other people don’t.

The question “what do you miss most about home?” strikes me because it wasn’t supposed to exist in a light-hearted conversation.

penyiksaan jamuan makan malam oleh sang ahli dalam meluluhlantahkan ruangan yang menggerogoti rusuk, merasuk dalam pilu, mengacak kalbu, sambil terisak lugu memikul bayang-bayang kematian palsu.

Recovering from hardship may be a lonesome journey where one could be misunderstood and merely labeled as another misfit, another oddity to society.

I remembered something my sociology teacher once said, “People are not allowed to tell you what’s weird and what’s not,” I grew up in a very conservative family and I don’t say that there’s something wrong about that, but I always had this feeling of unsureness inside of me. I was told to behave like other kids, to chase my dreams, build a family and have kids. But I have always known that I don’t fit there.

We try to reach out, but we’re stuck, paralyzed, not knowing what to do we end up spiralling down our own thoughts. It’s confusing.