Max Ceddo's latest release, "Waltzing to a Dirge," is a keenly observed meditation on death, remembrance and performative grief. But I think the central idea of the track is very remarkable. Sometimes people come to mourn someone who is not around to feel their presence. It asks if public displays of love are real, and if anything will be remembered for long by anybody. The uncomfortable irony is perfectly captured in the line, “Now that I’m dead people are coming who wouldn’t have come if I was alive.” I think this is a release that uses dark humour and melancholy to challenge traditional ideas of mourning.
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