B-Side Guys

Alex Mojaverian’s decision to accompany existential terror with sandwich preparation creates cognitive dissonance that somehow clarifies rather than obscures the song’s central anxiety. “Eventually” emerges from Trash Man’s whirlwind Pennsylvania recording weekend with Dave Lawson, where tight timelines and comfort food apparently provide optimal conditions for confronting mortality.

The track’s brevity serves its subject matter effectively—when facing the void, extended musical exploration feels like avoidance rather than investigation. Mojaverian’s commitment to saying only what needs saying and lasting only as long as necessary demonstrates editorial discipline rare in indie rock, where existential themes often invite self-indulgent sprawl.

His approach to mortality anxiety avoids both nihilistic wallowing and false comfort. The repeated acknowledgment that “nothing really matters / eventually” functions as observation rather than conclusion, presenting death awareness as ongoing condition rather than problem requiring solution. This represents mature perspective that accepts rather than resolves fundamental human anxieties.

The Cool Until It’s Not EP context—recorded across three days including a squeezed-in Liquid Mike show in Brooklyn—suggests an artist who practices the urgency his lyrics describe. Mojaverian’s pattern of writing only five songs annually indicates someone who values quality over productivity, understanding that some artists function better through focused bursts than sustained output.

His collaboration with longtime friend Lawson provides creative partnership that allows rapid execution without sacrificing intentionality. The ability to track drums by 4pm on arrival day and complete guitars hours before departure demonstrates efficiency born from mutual understanding rather than corner-cutting.

“Eventually” succeeds by treating existential dread as ordinary experience worthy of musical attention without dramatizing it beyond recognition. Sometimes the most honest response to mortality awareness is acknowledging it exists while making a sandwich anyway.