
Lost Legion – The Animals We Used To Be
Engineers and programmers have cleverly built most of the attractions of the modern world. There are all sorts of ways to be entertained the whole day and night through by the things that you like the most. There are all kinds of means of transportation to take you to places where you can be entertained some more. And, if you really have the bread, there are some types of entertainment hidden behind behind curtains for people just like you.
But they never put it on the off switch. There’s no filter for this kind of stuff. There’s no button where you can just make, for example, “American pop culture” go away. Sure, you can reduce it through a lot of work. But that’s a bit like choosing to live a few hundred meters further away from a nuclear reactor. It’s best to turn off the news altogether and pretend you’ve never heard about the characters being talked about in pop culture.
The alternative is that you go grow bitter, depressed and incapable of trusting the world anymore. The punk-rock punch of Lost Legion’s “The Animals We Used To Be” is not an isolated incident but the story of most of the kids who were made to think better things were just around the corner. Lost Legion perfectly capture the brutality and hopelessness of a world where everyone is looking out for number one, and there’s nobody there to lend a hand. It’s an overpowering feeling for many of us. And, if you want to turn it off, your best bet is to switch off the news.
HIGHTEENS – Munition Street
I hear that there was a time when musicians and other kinds of daring artists, felt reluctant about talking to the media. I know I am as surprised as you are, but apparently, even getting the opportunity to comment on your life choices or the inspiration for your songwriting on television, radio or in print would be something that some of the creative types simply turned down.
Imagine that! Maybe in an alternate reality, we might have pop stars who aren’t sold to the public by the politics that they support or by the boring anecdotes that they sell on late-night television.
Imagine a world where inventive, brave artists with plenty to say leave all of those messages in their work for you to discover! Just try to imagine a modern world where pop stars aren’t really asked to be politicians first.
HIGHTEENS sound desperate to reach you. They want to know you, and, most importantly, they desperately hope that you’ll want to know them. But they won’t allow themselves the indignity of spelling it all out for you. There’s plenty of anxiety captured in “Munition Street”, and a few hurdles have needed to be overcome just to get this grunge-rock slugger out there. Now it’s your turn.