circle round a sphere and Rū Kai Reviewed
circle round a sphere – bury
I talk to a lot of conspiracy nuts often. I mainly do it because I have to. Many of them are my friends or co-workers and shutting them down now, after all this time, would feel disrespectful.
The funny thing that does happen is that somewhere in the middle of most conversations, even the most far-fetched theories, start to become a real relief and morale booster. “Yeah, maybe they are targeting me? It only makes sense they’d notice!”
Still, you don’t have to travel that far down the rabbit hole. The fact is that there are many, possibly sinister things lurking just behind all the services provided by your many devices. It’s certainly helping keep up the members of Ireland’s circle round a sphere.
That helps make circle round a sphere’s “bury” not just a tight, robust alternative-rock song that you can bang your head to, but also a possible wake-up call to the role modern tech plays in our lives and to how difficult it is to break from it. Have you read the fine print? This band’s pretty sure that you haven’t.
Rū Kai – Let Go
Things don’t change unless you desperately work to have them change. That, as you might expect, is mighty hard and risky labour. That’s why most people won’t ever go through the trouble of altering the way they do and see things.
It’s the same law that governs the lives of artists as it does everyone else. Your favourite band most likely made only one great album and spent the next decades redelivering the same material under a different key.
But that’s not a thing worth encouraging. Things don’t change, and people stop growing. No new stories get told, and no new solutions get explored. Rū Kai is the kind of artist willing to take a risk and put the work in.
“Let Go” is a very catchy indie-rock tune, the kind where the vocal melodies prop themselves on top of the distorted guitar riffs like a fighter claiming victory and showing the belt to cheering crowds. It’s a song about embracing the dangers of change, about escaping routine. It’s a hook-filled invitation.
