Esses have become one of the pillars in the thriving Oakland and San Francisco underground. Encompassing elements of deathrock and dark post-punk shrouded under a veil of forbidding doom, Esses captures an atmosphere that is intimate and intense at the same time. The Oakland five piece have now released their sophomore album, Bloodletting For The Lonely, via Atakra Records in the US and Poland’s Bat-Cave Productions. A follow-up to Esses 2018 EP, Offering, Bloodletting For The Lonely, centers around the topics of mental health, memory, and trauma, roaming over the events that are internalized into an unconscious space like a lucid dream and the world around which we cannot escape. The record interprets the psychology of moving through this comatose space as two separate beings inhab...