Burley and Kid Tigrrr Reviewed
Burley – Change
You can like rock music for one of two reasons. It is possible, of course, that you simply like the tunes, the way that an electric guitar hits upon the speakers like the waves on rocks, and the drum sound on great records. That’s fine! But it’s more likely that you start liking rock because of what it tells you when you’re an adolescent and what you want it to tell you all across your life.
And because the latter category is always larger, there’s no real reason for most rock music to ever evolve. In fact, if you asked a legacy band to try and perform something else other than the hits, they could just collectively die of laughter.
Still, that’s not what life is about. It’s not the way that it was designed. And the people who do their best to avoid change, as Burley tells us, are bound to lose out eventually.
“Change” is a tender folk and country-inspired song. It’s sung politely as if the band doesn’t want to disturb an audience that’s been sitting beside the stage for hours. But the lyrics are as honest as can be. This is a song about disappointment, heartbreak and the only solution: moving forward.
Kid Tigrrr – Haunted House
You’re tired, I know. Well, who isn’t? You’re forced to make a million little decisions every day, and, by this stage, you don’t even know what the strategy was to begin with. Yeah, of course. Who doesn’t feel that way?
But I gotta tell you that if you’re past the point of allowing a song to break your heart, things have gotten to the point where they should worry you deeply. If you no longer feel the need to weep when hearing a tune that describes your particular predicament in excellent detail, there’s reason to believe that this route you’re on is hopeless.
Most of pop music is just a bunch of songs that arrive, get their checks and are never to be seen again. A little bit of pop music is hypnotic and life-changing, or, at the very least, it tries to be. Kid Tigrrr attempts to be part of the second category.
“Haunted House” finds itself musically in that modern and quite trendy mix of sad pop and acoustic folk-rock. This is a song designed to break your heart as the singer’s whispered vocals talk about old friends descending into a hell of their own making. It’s a gentle, soulful affair. It strives to be more than just a typical pop song.
