housewarming* is one of the most emotionally moving albums I've ever listened to. While partly because of its obscurity having an impact on how personally connected I feel to the album, it is extremely strong in its theming, consistency in energy, while also having the duality of a deep awareness of the world and a dreamlike perspective of it - disconnected from the larger whole, focusing on its intricacies in moments of her life. The instrumentals that accompany this song are very powerful in their amplification of this expression compsigh creates, and just its grainy guitar and off-tune piano do wonders for its emotional convention to allow the listener to empathise with her. It's self described as "A falling-out wrapped in a pretty bow, An awkward dinner with a significant other you no longer love, A conversation with a dead friend", and I feel this description suits it well for what it is - an album of beautifully heartwrenching poetry on coping with the loss of another and yourself.
This song is the one that I find myself returning to very frequently. Its pure emotion in portraying both a feeling of heavy heartache as well as having a particular acceptance of being content with life creates a wonderfully contrasting feeling, one that I can't particularly pinpoint but I absolutely love nonetheless. Its length serves to take the listener on a journey throughout the song, showing them the strained relationship compsigh has with her disjointed memories and how she struggles to live with the pains of being human. Even despite the usual bleak lyrics present in the album's other songs, the lyricism present in The death of religion, shows just a twinge of sanguinity; while it's still clearly painful to relive these memories, and she expresses that she may never get over these feelings, there is the feeling of a silent expression of hope. This is expressed through the extremely beautiful use of instrumentals - most especially notable is the segment starting at 4:55, for me. It breaks the custom of the quiet, echoing acoustic present throughout most of the song, and despite being very loud, its introduction is all but jarring. It evokes a feeling of strong love, for me, and screams in passion for the world, passion for the life that she lives, despite the pain that she has endured. Coexisting with thus, even, and it makes me feel hopeful for my own future, that even with the turmoil I go through, I will have love. We will have love.