{"id":289,"date":"2022-12-07T21:12:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/?p=289"},"modified":"2022-12-13T00:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:42:04","slug":"didymus-cunis-upcoming-single-is-without-a-doubt-vulnerable-and-explosive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/didymus-cunis-upcoming-single-is-without-a-doubt-vulnerable-and-explosive\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;didymus&#8221;: Cuni&#8217;s Upcoming Single Is, Without Doubt, Vulnerable and Explosive"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>by Alli Rose<\/p>\r\n<p>Hailing from the D(M)V area, Cuni started as a solo project for Jared Cunanan, vocalist and rhythm guitarist, but has since expanded to include Aaron Millison on lead guitar, Franklin Parada on bass guitar, and Lucas Kirby on drums. In their own words, Cuni is \u201clike if emo got really into new wave and post punk, but had a weird shoegaze phase and was also chronically online.\u201d<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-304\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/files\/2022\/12\/didymus-single-art-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/files\/2022\/12\/didymus-single-art-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/files\/2022\/12\/didymus-single-art-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/files\/2022\/12\/didymus-single-art-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/files\/2022\/12\/didymus-single-art-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/files\/2022\/12\/didymus-single-art.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Cover art for &#8220;didymus.&#8221; Photo courtesy of Jared Cunanan.<br \/><br \/>Cuni is serving an emo banger to mosh to with their upcoming single \u201cdidymus,\u201d dropping on January 13, 2023 on all platforms. The track opens with a quick count-off before diving right into hardcore heavy instrumentation. Guitar distortion adds a perfectly imperfect grunginess to the sound, and math-rock riffs prick the ears of music theory nerds without distracting from the song\u2019s driving energy. Lyrics fully embrace emo as they evoke dark imagery with phrases like \u201cuntying nooses around my neck.\u201d The swift tempo set by the drums creates a sense of urgency, making the lyrics seem like racing thoughts that haunt the speaker. These thoughts focus on questioning the effectiveness of faith:<br \/><br \/><em>\u201cIs it faith or empty hope? Now they say you\u2019re always with me<\/em><br \/><em>so why do I still feel the same?\u00a0 If you\u2019re only here to watch,<\/em><br \/><em>then what difference does it make?\u201d<\/em><br \/><br \/>The title of the track further reinforces this questioning, with \u201cdidymus\u201d referencing the biblical Doubting Thomas, who refused to believe Jesus had been resurrected until he saw the man and his wounds with his own eyes. Jared Cunanan vulnerably expresses his own doubts in the biting single, and expression is what emo is all about. Instead of shooting those doubting thoughts out into the void, yell them to a dancing sweaty crowd, or record them to liven a listener\u2019s commute. That\u2019s what Cuni does.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/jcuni\">Cuni&#8217;s linktree<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/revelance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}