Left on Tenth – Valley
What if the very best things that life has to offer will, in the not-too-distant future, be reserved for only a wealthy elite? What if even the places where you’re allowed to roam or reside will be off limits?
That should make you anxious, not only because it sounds like a hellish scenario, but, frankly, because everything points towards this happening if something doesn’t change.
Of course, it’s hard to make peace with it, not only because it’s the hight of human absurdity, but because so many of the things that make life enjoyable, if you’re lucky be living in an affluent Western country, may still come cheaply. But for how long?
Left on Tenth’s “Valley” is a beautifully mournful pop song. In many ways, this is the marriage of something resembling a pop ballad about the beauty of nature and the oppressive ideas that should make us tense about this planet’s future. Left on Tenth is right to worry, and we should as well.
Cancre – Des nuages dans les yeux
There used to be very few companies that sold music with any success. Nearly all of them were located in the USA or over in England. The bands and artists who got signed by those companies decades ago were occasionally good, and often mediocre. Many of those musicians became amazingly wealthy.
Now, all of those things are nothing new. In fact, everyone knows that this is how the story used to go. And, this is why, there’s a certain expectation from Anglo-American bands when they release new music to hurry up and provide the hits. That means, oftentimes, these bands forget to search for depth in a bid to find the quickest route to a hit.
Cancre, on the other hand, is a band looking, first of all, for poetry. The French band’s sound is built on romantic images and on a great, almost painful longing. “Des Nuages Dans Les Yeux” translates roughly to “The Clouds in Your Eyes.” It’s a song that flows in the air like a declaration of devotion from someone singing with devotion of a person confident they’ll never taste love again. Yes, there are still songs that look to defy old patterns, and that’s a mighty good thing.
