“Post Mortem Analysis – An album chronicling the writer’s journey through cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety” is not your typical 8-track album. It’s a visceral, vulnerable body of work by HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO that blends music production and therapy in a way that feels both academic and deeply personal. Created originally as part of a thesis, this album doubles as an experiment: to explore how effective songwriting and music production can be in confronting and processing traumatic memories. The result is a genre-shifting, emotionally rich listening experience that goes beyond entertainment—it becomes something of a lifeline.
At the heart of Post Mortem Analysis is a poetic and symbolic image that frames the emotional tone of the project:
“AND HE WAS FOREVER
MADE OF SUGAR
GLASS.
ABOUT TO BREAK,
BUT HOLDING ON.”
This metaphor lingers over the entire album like a fragile veil. It sets the stage for what feels like a brave performance—not in the theatrical sense, but in the act of showing up for oneself, day after day, in therapy, in song, in struggle.
Each track on the album represents one or two sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and this concept grounds the entire project. What makes the album so compelling is the sheer honesty with which it’s constructed. It doesn’t try to be neat or polished emotionally, because therapy isn’t either. The lyrics often stumble through doubt, retreat into introspection, and then occasionally erupt in moments of insight—mirroring the unpredictable rhythm of real therapeutic progress.
Musically, Post Mortem Analysis is diverse. It weaves through genres in a way that feels reflective of emotional instability and the complexity of human experience. At times, the sound is stripped-back and intimate—just a voice and a few instruments. Other moments explode into full arrangements, using distorted guitars, layered synths, or sharp drum breaks that jolt the listener awake. The genre-hopping doesn’t feel random; it feels deliberate. It reinforces the sense that each track is a standalone session—a separate psychological scene, unique in its tone and emotional temperature.
The standout quality of the album is its emotional arc. From the earliest tracks, which carry the weight of fear, shame, and isolation, to the closing songs where subtle glimpses of clarity and self-acceptance emerge, the narrative arc is unmistakable.
This is where the transformation becomes visible—not a dramatic, Hollywood-style cure, but a quiet re-alignment. It’s honest about the fact that healing doesn’t mean perfection, but understanding. It’s the moment when the listener realises, along with the artist, that fear doesn’t have to dictate life.
Post Mortem Analysis doesn’t just explore social anxiety—it lets us feel it. The unease. The overthinking. The isolation. But it also leads us toward something more. Not a “fix,” but a shift. It dares to ask whether the process of creating music can be just as therapeutic as talking. And in doing so, it opens the door for other artists, other listeners, to consider the same possibility for themselves.
This isn’t just an album—it’s a document of survival, introspection, and fragile courage. For anyone who’s ever sat in a therapy room, questioned their worth, or wondered if they’d ever get better, Post Mortem Analysis offers something rare: a deeply relatable mirror, and a hopeful whisper that maybe, just maybe, you’re not as alone as you think.
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