Tell Me That It's Over Without Ever Letting Me Know is Ghost Sloth's second effort, and the sequel to 2021's "I'd Hate To Be Anything Like You".

"I'd Hate" was a very cathartic project all around: It was recorded in a couple hours after fighting with my family, all in one take and with minimal production going into it. It was meant to be a one off thing, with an anecdote as its background, reflecting my conflicting feelings at that moment mixed with the ones acquired over a life full of these fights in major or miner scale.

"Tell Me" isn't based on an anecdote, its a novel, in scale. This is not just fighting with family, is me on a sudden, difficult housing situation, losing any lone time during that moment, having to deal with other people while I was fighting with myself, letting go a ton of projects that I had spent years trying to get up and running because this whole debacle left me without time, nor energy to work on them, and letting go a part of who I am that I cant let everyone see. It was a heavy situation that came out of nowhere, and one that I'm not sure I'm over mentally yet.

So let that be the first sign of things to change. While "I'd Hate" came up during a moment of feeling horrible, "Tell Me" is the development of those emotions during months. Its focused on transmitting the nostalgia and emptiness of leaving a place you were used to (both physically and mentally), of people leaving, of dysphoria, and the anger provoked by confusion, by not understanding where or who you are, yet having to pick up a fight.

And not only the context in which it was recorded changed, but the process did as well. "Id Hate" was recorded over a single project file with the same plugins and only had guitar, all in a single take. "Tell Me" was recorded more "conventionally", all in its different projects with different concepts in mind, taking days to record each song, going back to see what worked and what not, taking out or repurposing whole sections of songs, just letting everything breath and develop on its own.

And I think that "develop" is the key change in here, I let my feelings develop over time, and this tracks were up for the ride, some changing drastically because of how I felt on different points in time, some staying the same during all iterations because they were key to the others coming up, ending up in the record that I've taken the longest to record.

And now, these songs are yours the same as they're mine. I hope that you find something in these, and maybe that they'll help you get through a hard time, as recording them did for me.