Living on the edge? Don’t know where to go, or what to do to escape the troubles of reality?

Then pick up Keeping Crescent’s new rock album “Your Escape EP” and head to the most serene place, where singer/songwriter Sami Khan will diminish those problems.

This album raises questions that students at times may ask themselves, such as: What happens at the end of the road called life? In the song, “‘Til the End,” listeners think about their own end after hearing lyrics like, “Will you come down/I don’t want to be alone again tonight/I’ll try to hide the pain inside because it felt so right.” Lyrics like these will leave listeners contemplating their place in this life, and wondering about the afterlife.

Other songs on the album, like “Your Escape,” reflect lost and dead-end feelings. It reaches out to the girl in her room contemplating suicide, or the boy in jail, or any one else who is feeling down and out.

Still others, like the ballad, “100 Years,” reflect on a relationship between two people who leave each other and reflect on the best times of their lives.

This song is emotional because it creates those familiar feelings of change, success and happiness. 

Keeping Crescent continues to live by its name because the band’s lyrics motivate listeners not to only view the pessimistic side of things, but to keep growing, changing and examining life’s unanswered questions.

Bridget Boudreaux can be reached at [email protected].