Endless Wellness – Hand im Gesicht
Genre: Indie Rock
Those who end up making a living out of creating music are hoping to be saved. Yes, some are looking for a kind of spiritual redemption. They need to believe that somewhere down the road, everything that they’ve done will come together and make life and all of its difficulties make sense.
The others simply wish to be saved through a life of riches believing that their music will earn them financial success. This is less glamorous, naturally, but it represents a belief in the unknown nonetheless.
Endless Wellness’ “Hand im Gesicht” is delivered with the kind of despair and dark humour of artists that believe their work will carry them to some kind of salvation. Whether it be a spiritual or financial one is not clear. Some of the most famous Austrians have had the knack of convincing the world of intentions far different from the ones they had in reality. Regardless, it will be fascinating to continue following Endless Wellness in order to find out.
full catholic – marry me
Similar artists: Joanna Newsom, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten
Genre: Indie Folk, Folk, Indie Rock
Life’s great mysteries work to give some people’s lives purpose and also conspire to would others’ existence to the point where even the most skilled analyst will require to recommend copies amount of cocaine, a la Herr Freud, in order to lift their mood.
Love, marriage and fate in a higher power are the kinds of things that divide people. They are also the sort of things that sit at the bedrock of entire cultures. And, maybe this is why, in Wester countries particularly, they make a lot of folks very confused, unhappy, bitter and in need to search for meaning.
full catholic “marry me” create a wonderfully beautiful yet paranoid sound meant to probe at life’s great riddles. It’s music that isn’t exactly built so much as a song that helps to rise and take the shape of its own. It’s a journey toward a final chapter that may or may never arrive.
