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Dysfunctional Family

Dysfunctional Family is a haunting autopsy of the bloodline. In this final chapter, GLΛSS HABIT turns the lens away from the bedroom and toward the living room—the site of our first loves, our first lies, and our first wounds.

The record explores the roles we are cast in before we are old enough to speak: the "Golden Child" forced into a gilded cage of perfection, the "Loyal One" serving as a structural beam for a collapsing house, and the "Black Sheep" who finds that exile is the only path to honesty. Through stories of inherited rage, generational silence, and the "Heirlooms" of trauma we pass down like fine china, Dysfunctional Family maps the distance between the people we are and the people we were told to be.

With a soundscape of grit-heavy emo rock and melancholic analog synths, this is more than an album about conflict—it is an album about the "Quiet Fire" of survival. It is a portrait of the ghosts we keep at the table, and the slow, grainy grace of finally learning to watch the home movies without flinching.

Dysfunctional Family – Track by Track

1. Family Meeting

Theme: The Sarcastic Welcome

A dinner-table anthem where the truth is the only thing not on the menu. Family Meeting sets the tone with a biting look at "Sunday clothes" modesty and the reluctant habit of staying together just to keep the tremors at bay.

2. The Golden Child

Theme: The Perfection Myth

The weight of being the family’s "halo." This track explores the isolation of the chosen one—the sibling whose success is used as a yardstick to measure everyone else’s failure. It’s a crown that burns the wearer as much as the witnesses.

3. The Loyal One

Theme: The Caretaker’s Curse

A lament for the family fixer. The Loyal One captures the exhaustion of being the "bridge" that everyone walks across. It asks the painful question: What happens when goodness is just a form of obedience?

4. Mother, Interrupted

Theme: Inherited Exhaustion

A study in emotional codependency. This track deconstructs the "sacrifice" narrative, looking at the blurred boundaries between a mother’s unfulfilled dreams and a child’s need to finally breathe on their own.

5. Father’s Son

Theme: The Mirror of Rage

The terrifying moment you hear his voice coming out of your mouth. Father's Son is a brutal confrontation with the "inherited sin" of anger and the struggle to not become the ghost you spent your life running from.

6. The Family Secret

Theme: Silence as Tradition

A cinematic dive into the things we don't say. The Family Secretexplores how trauma lives in the walls and the floorboards, passed down through bloodlines disguised as "grace."

7. Don’t Tell Anyone

Theme: Breaking the Code

A furious, whispered confession. This track tackles the generational omertà surrounding abuse and the visceral liberation of finally saying the truth out loud—even if it brings the whole house down.

8. Invisible Illness

Theme: Minimized Pain

The gaslighting of the "moody" child. Invisible Illness captures the quiet rot of mental health struggles in a family that only believes in blood they can see.

9. The Other Son

Theme: Erased Legacies

A song for the "ghosts who still breathe." This track gives a voice to the child kept behind the glass—the product of an affair or a secret life—who observes a family they can love but never claim.

10. The Patriot’s Ghost

Theme: Blind Conviction

An elegy for the stubborn. The Patriot’s Ghost mourns a man who died defending a myth of strength, wrapped in a flag but empty of peace. It’s a study in how pride looks when the war never comes.

11. Black Sheep

Theme: Rebellion as Rebirth

The outsider’s anthem. Black Sheep reclaims the role of the misfit, turning exile into an honest way to live. It’s the sound of realizing that being "unwanted" is just another word for being free.

12. Empty Chair

Theme: The Shape of Loss

Grief as "love with nowhere to go." This track captures the physical presence of absence—the chair that stays pulled out for the person who isn't coming back, whether through death or distance.

13. The Heirloom

Theme: The Weight of the Name

Trauma as a keepsake. Using a family watch as a metaphor, The Heirloom explores how we wear our ancestors' "quiet curses" and call them a legacy.

14. Family Photo

Theme: Staged Togetherness

A "masterpiece of compromise." This song looks at the performance of the family portrait—a frozen lie that reflects what we lost in dreams while we were busy smiling for the flash.

15. Home Movies

Theme: Analog Grace

The quiet epilogue. Home Movies watches the past flicker in "sacred static," finding a bittersweet healing in seeing the people we were before the scars took hold. It’s the final exhale of the trilogy.

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