October is the month of haunts, and as we learn each and every day, there’s nothing more terrifying than the real-world bullshit we’re forced to confront and deal with on the regular. And over the course of our dealings with the broken world around us, we tend to create a wall of emotional defense mechanisms. Those come into play through RIVER’s aching new single “I AM CANCER,” an intimate portrait of a fractured self from the Swedish alt-pop artist that hits the streams today (October 8). “‘I AM CANCER’ reflects an infected mind trying to love and receive love through a wall of defense protecting it from vulnerability — and therefore love itself,” says RIVER. “It communicates frustration around the inability to cure or hide an ugly mind stuck in false self-beliefs, believing it’s unworthy of true love.” Confront those demons below.
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