WHOT Episode 154 – “Hard Enough” by The Parlor Mob
Hosted by Mangus Khan
[A slow heartbeat of bass. A minor key guitar riff creeps in like smoke. Then that voice—worn, weighty, real.]
“You’ve got the dial set on Late Night Grooves.
WHOT.
I’m Mangus Khan.
And this is Episode 154.
The truth tonight?
Sometimes strength isn’t about standing tall.
It’s about how many times you stand back up—even when you don’t want to.
Tonight’s track:
The Parlor Mob – ‘Hard Enough’
From Dark Hour, 2019.
And this song doesn’t pretend.
It pleads.
Not to escape, but to hold on long enough to feel anything again.
“I’ve been waiting for a long time to feel alive…”
That lyric?
That’s the whole sermon.
This isn’t angst for aesthetics.
It’s exhaustion dressed in distortion.
The guitar’s slow.
The drums don’t explode—they grind.
Because this song knows:
Some days, it’s not demons you’re fighting.
It’s the weight of trying to be okay when you’re not.
There’s beauty in that honesty.
No swagger. No ego.
Just a voice trying to stay upright.
And that’s what Dark Hour does better than most albums of its kind.
It lets the cracks show.
It tells the truth about being strong in public and falling apart in private.
And on this track, The Parlor Mob gives us permission—
To admit it’s hard enough just to keep showing up.
Especially when the world tells you to toughen up instead of speak up.
So tonight, I’m not asking for your playlist favorite.
I’m asking you to let this song sit with you.
Let it say what maybe you’ve been afraid to.
Or what someone you love needs to hear but doesn’t know how to say.
Episode 154.
The Parlor Mob.
Hard Enough.
This is Late Night Grooves.
WHOT.
And I’m Mangus Khan—
Still holding on.
Still getting up.
Still here.”
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