A sparse arrangement that’s more melodically focused than one might expect from all the geetars. Rather than sounding like yet another a chord progression topped with a vocal, it sounds like melodies and countermelodies, and that is great.

Your workflow of starting within BIAB and finishing without it is interesting, and has produced good results here. Part of what I really like about this is that sparse, very clean layout, as well as knowing that each guitar is actually you and not a prisoner escaped from “The Box”. If temptation to overproduce was resisted, it was resisted wisely.

I have been playing my (real, physical) Les Paul Studio some lately, and your work makes me want to focus more.

OK, having said all that, I feel vaguely idiotic offering all this nicey-nicey stuff about a song with as grim a theme as this, but on such matters ATM I am mute, I know others will have more to say.