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Electric Mainline x Artifex Lux and Fight Cloud Reviewed

Electric Mainline x Artifex Lux and Fight Cloud Reviewed

Electric Mainline x Artifex Lux – Rope

It’s hard for people who start out by trusting their lives to people who they only know through the records that they’ve collected to later substitute that trust for politicians, generals, and other symbols of authority. 

This is not just because they’re smarter than everyone else who rushes in to cast their votes at every new election. It’s probably because the records have created a way to view the world. They’ve accompanied enough thrills and heartbreak that to search for something similar in the outside world would seem ridiculous. 

At their best, musical artists are friends who you’ve likely never met and who accompany you through stories and events that most other friends would avoid or not be invited to. 

The first thing you’ll notice from the single “Rope” by Electric Mainline & Artifex Lux is that it sounds as intimate as The Smiths recording a song, especially for you and sending it over through some kind of time machine. The next thing that you may notice is how classy and well-designed the jazz-rock instrumental sounds. This is heavy, emotional music played and sung with a very light touch.


Fight Cloud – Home To Ghosts

The great and mysterious Roky Erickson sang “if you have ghosts, you have everything.” While, with the little knowledge we have of the late, great Mr. Erickson, it’s easy to assume that he was referring to literal ghosts, just as he sang about literal zombies and two-headed dogs, our natural tendency as listeners to dig up romantic notions out of our favourite songs can lead us to think that artists need regrets. 

Sure, if you’re a compassionate person, you’re hoping that those regrets do not keep the artists up on all night or make them wake up howling. But just as good vibes help people who want to set records in the Olympics or win big in business, so do bad vibes help artists. Otherwise, there would be little significant information to write about. Others have tried to write about setting records, and most of those songs only ended up on Jay-Z mix tapes. What a shame!

Fight Cloud’s “Home To Ghosts” is music steeped in great, dark melancholy. This music is a virtual smoke machine, creating a layer of fog so thick that’s difficult to see two steps ahead of you, let alone your destination. But the struggle is part of the appeal as far as listeners are concerned. Fight Cloud’s sound also fits this purpose well with music that takes folkie, and acoustic instrumentation to its math/prog-rock natural conclusion. It’s a complex, dense piece and one that fits long, cold nights of “what ifs.”

Electric Mainline x Artifex Lux - Rope

8.0

Fight Cloud - Home To Ghosts

8.0

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About author

Eduard Banulescu is a writer, blogger, and musician. As a content writer, Eduard has contributed to numerous websites and publications, including FootballCoin, Play2Earn, BeIN Crypto, Business2Community, NapoliSerieA, Extra Time Talk, Nitrogen Sports, Bavarian FootballWorks, etc. He has written a book about Nirvana, hosts a music podcasts, and writes weekly content about some of the best, new and old, alternative musicians. Eduard also runs and acts as editor-in-chief of the alternative rock music website www.alt77.com. Mr. Banulescu is also a musician, having played and recorded in various bands and as a solo artist.
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