knitting Converge Grunge, Memory & Mortality With "I Wasn't Fully Cooked"
- Charles Luberisse
- 1 hour ago
- 2 min read
Written By: Big C
A slow-motion collision hangs in the air like thunder refusing to land. knitting stretch that suspended feeling across every second of I Wasn’t Fully Cooked. The Montreal band approach existential fear with remarkable intimacy, transforming thoughts of identity, death, and unfinished selfhood. Guitars exchange between hazy openness and fractured tension, and the balance gives the track its strange gravity. Front person Mischa Dempsey’s focuses on the terrifying possibility of leaving the world before truly becoming yourself. Under Sasha Khalimonova direction fragmented movement and super-slow-motion imagery, trapping its characters in the unbearable stillness before impact. Dempsey explained how fears surrounding identity, memory, and being misunderstood after death ultimately pushed the track into existence. He said:
I was on tour in early 2020 and got really scared that I would die in a freak accident and would be mourned as a girl, as my old name (this fear was eventually a big impetus for me coming out to people as non-binary and changing my name). ‘I Wasn’t Fully Cooked’ was a way for me to think about what death interrupts and what gets remembered…It might be our favorite knitting song yet.
Souvenir continues expanding knitting’s ability to transform personal recollection into immersive guitar-driven worlds without flattening those experiences into generic indie-rock nostalgia. The album’s title directly translates from French as “to remember,” and nearly every track reportedly functions like reopening a carefully preserved fragment of someone’s life. Touring alongside artists such as Preoccupations, Wishy, Ribbon Skirt, and Wild Pink has only sharpened that balance between intimacy and scale. Let "I Wasn’t Fully Cooked" linger long after the final chord fades. Connect with knitting on INSTAGRAM BANDCAMP.