Blonde Goth – Specter of Circumstance
It’s easy to become cynical about modern pop music. A lot of it feels like a trick. It’s not just the commercial aspects, or the fact that any band with a bit of a catalogue is selling it to the highest bidder and hoping to start an insurance agency instead.
Pop songs nowadays are a bit like overcrowded rollercoaster attractions. Sure, you’ve heard about them. Yes, you need to wait in a long queue. But while they may be exciting for a minute, they end much too quickly and leave you with little other than fatigue.
Blonde Goth dares to dream of guitar pop music, once again, as something mysterious, perhaps, even holy. Wouldn’t you rather listen ot artists who are trying to channel something otherworldly through their music, something that only the sound of distorted guitars could summon?
Taking inspiration from Billy Corgan and J. Mascis’s guitar attack, Blonde Goth’s “Specter of Circumstance” is celestial noise-rock, jet fuel for interplanetary travel. It swings and rocks, but it’s an attraction best enjoyed with your eyes closed and your imagination set to “overdrive.” This isn’t music about thrills, but, instead, about enduring relationships.
Still Traffico – Stick Figure
There’s this one song that you heard on a Summer’s day. It made you think about your childhood and somehow made you feel at peace with everything that went on. Sadly, you’ve never been able to find it ever since.
It should’ve been a hit and thus easy to, eventually, spot. You’ve bought records, but it wasn’t on any of them. You’ve scrubbed through endless Spotify playlists and YouTube recommendations. And you’ve even asked around.
There were no words to it, and nobody seems to know what you’re talking about. Even you’re starting to think that, maybe, you just made it all up. Maybe that music only existed inside your brain for a moment.
Still Traffico makes precisely that kind of music. “Stick Figure” is exactly that kind of song. A mix of African and Southern European jazz and pop, Still Traffico performs instrumental music that sounds as if it’s playing from a nearby beach. It exists partly as an illusion, as a hallucination. But now that you’ve found it, feel free to use it whenever you need.
