Credit: Official Assemblage 23 / Facebook

While we can’t make an exact estimate of how many COVID-19 lockdown masterpieces centered around mental health, there’s no doubt that it played a part on the electro-dance outfit Assemblage 23’s 2020 record, Mourn.

On it, frontman Tom Shear writes about his poetic definition of anxiety, laments how a previous lifestyle ended up causing him to lose friends, and welcomes an apocalypse with open arms. The album does end on a hopeful note, though, when Shear burns down a house filled with painful memories, and looks to better himself “in fairer climes.”

Tickets to see Assemblage 23 and Mari Kattm play the Music Hall at New World Brewery in Tampa on Friday, June 16 are still available and start at $23.

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This article appears in Jun 8-14, 2023.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...