Theo Bleak Opens The Wound On "Bargaining" Mixtape
- Charles Luberisse
- 6 hours ago
- 2 min read
Written By: Big C
Written during a deeply transformative period and informed by the journals of her late great uncle, Bargaining draws power from its rawness. Theo Bleak records at the edges of composure, leaving in the sounds of her space and the weight of her pauses. The result feels intensely personal mirroring how grief resurfaces from different angles before loosening its hold. With Bargaining, she offers a document rather than a conclusion—one that invites listeners to sit with discomfort, revisit memory, and move forward in pieces.
A chronological mixtape of my year through the most intense stage of grief I experienced- bargaining. Coming to terms with change, which felt unsurpassable, deep love, and brutal honesty . My mixtape was recorded at each of the rawest, saddest moments. The creak of my studio chair was audible in some of the tracks where I sat down to reason with my life, my mistakes, and my choices.
She adds:
I navigated the mess of my life over the last year, inspired by the complex philosophy hidden within simple sentiments, imparted through my late Great Uncle's journals. I read and annotated these, rich with his passion for cycling. These diaries begin in 1966, and although John died in the early 2000s, I could feel the friendship as though the veil was thin between the living and the dead. My best friend.
Theo Bleak continues to build a body of work defined by poetic restraint and emotional depth. That vulnerability comes into sharp focus on Finest Work, which arrives today with an official music video. The track distills the mixtape’s core tension—between self-awareness and self-doubt—into a moment that feels suspended in time. Earlier standout Megan In New York traced the beginning of an unraveling, setting the tone for a project where each song represents another step through the bargaining stage of grief, never linear, never clean. Stream "Bargaining" now and watch the “Finest Work” video. Connect with Theo Bleak on Spotify, Instagram, Bandcamp, YouTube, and Apple Music.
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