I went to two memorials that weekend.

I scattered my grandmother’s ashes in a bluebonnet patch and napped in bluebonnets myself before I consoled my step-brother after his mother passed. It weighed on me through the month—but was briefly lifted and crushed by Frail Body. At SXSW, just before the release of their new album, Artificial Bouquet, Frail Body ripped through the record. An unyielding exploration of grief, lead singer and guitarist Lowell Shaffer relives the loss of his own mother through the single most cathartic album made this year. We talked to them below.