Clint Frost – (Interlude)
The way that pop music has been sold and consumed over the years has made us instinctively feel about the people making our favourite songs in the same way that we feel about friends. But we’re wrong!
Most of the greatest songwriters were very interesting people, sure. But would they more quickly buy you a beer and ask about your dead cat, or insult your mother and steal money from your wallet when you’re not looking?
Music’s a great way to meet interesting people. Clint Frost certainly makes interesting, challenging music. And the songwriter makes no effort to appear likeable or convince you that, by some strange coincidence, they share the same interests as you.
Clint Frost’s “(Interlude)” is good-sounding, outsider music. One of Frost’s most direct, pleasant recordings, “(Interlude)” with its vocals that come through like a repetitive knock on the door, and uncommon storytelling techniques, is still strange music to listen to! Great! Everybody’s a little too conventional and eager to please anyway. This proves that lo-fi online-released music is still one of the best ways to virtually meet interesting people nowadays.
Lucas Delacroix – nostalgia
Songs are an awful lot like action movie scenes. Neither makes a lot of sense without context, and both end up sounding and looking like tricks that subway performers do before passing a hat around and looking desperately at the crowd that’s refused to gather around them.
But maybe we depend a little too much on others offering us context. Maybe all the ways in which we’ve been fed information over the years have made us soft, unwilling to research and, most importantly, lazy about dreaming up our own context.
That’s why, try to shake up your imagination while listening to Lucas Delacroix’s music. Nothing might happen within the first few seconds of trying it! But try harder. Put yourself in the right place to receive, draw up the ideal film scene that this could soundtrack, and imagine why Delacroix worked on this and it should all make sense.
“nostalgia” is a beautiful old-school piece of music. Essentially, a short musical theme that quotes from classic jazz guitar music made nearly a century ago, this beautiful piece could easily fit in a movie about characters stuck in the future and trying to work their way back home. If nobody else has written or chosen the song, why not do it yourself inside your own mind?
