Hollowblades – Slow Decay
We should start celebrating bad decisions! We ought to start listening to the songs made by people who are, clearly, not seeking a hit! Listen, this is the kind of strategy that worked for us in the future. Do you like the original punk and shoegaze bands? Those people hardly ever knew how to tune their guitars. Their dreams were wild, untempered.
Those are the things that will save us. Don’t fear the AI chatbots that can create a song in any style in mere seconds! It only knows three or four chords, writes dumb lyrics, and always makes the production sound polished. It makes sensible choices. Yuck! Instead, rely on a band like Hollowblades!
There’s a moment when you listen to “Slow Decay,” when you think: “No famous producer will want to work with this band!” That’s the moment when things start to sound really good! This Czech band is not afraid of taking wild risks, of moving between extremes, of antagonising some listeners if that’s the way things must work out. You’ve got to trust in bands like Hollowblades if you want a future at all.
Tan Universe – What’s New
If you’re sane, you’re looking for a way to spend less time engaging with a reality that is, more often than not, cruel, unfair, and just plain ugly. If your mental sanity is in working parameters, you’re also wondering whether it’s a good strategy to detach from the world as much and as often as you do.
There are several tools to fade into your own imagination. However, the one that works best, costs the least and won’t get you tied to a bed in a loony bin, seems to be music. But it’s not just any old music. Tripping to Sabrina Carpenter songs is a daring objective, but not even Timothy Leary would be able to pull that off.
Tan Universe suggests something different: music designed to make you question the nature and the importance of reality. “What’s New” is noisy, lush shoegaze. It treats feedback and distorted guitars like a magician’s tools. However, it also incorporates unexpected melodies and guitar lines as it makes you wonder whether we’re really here at all.
