Meagre Martin – Meagre Martin
I suppose the work of becoming an artist deals especially with choices. It’s not enough to be talented, charming, or even to have a rich parent backrolling your efforts. The first thing that you need to do is answer who you want to be.
It’s not much different to create a game avatar. Once you have decided, you will need to stick to your choice. Is your art meant to represent the future or the past? Are you making art out of love or out of anger? And most importantly, you’ll need to figure out if you are you a hero, a villain, or something else.
It’s easy to be the hero when you’re giving yourself the leading part. If you’re set on being the villain, you’ll have plenty of role models from which to draw inspiration. But if instead you’re looking for something more complex, something that touches on the complex human psyche, you will stand out.
There’s a brittle quality to the music of Meagre Martin and their self-titled track. It’s a shoegaze/indie-inspired sound that feels ready to crumble the minute you hold it in your hand and apply pressure. But this is by design. Meagre Martin ain’t a hero or a villain but someone willing to do anything for love. That’s the character, the story ,and the personality of the music. And you can hear it, practically in every single note.
A Place In Between – Into Bliss
What’s the rush? Is anything worth rushing toward when there’s no boss to make the demands and no appointment to be upheld? A lot of us, frankly, can’t even consider living a life where we don’t run from one idea to another, from one passion to another, from one stressful situation to another. But we shouldn’t blame ourselves. It’s the heartbeat of the society that we’ve learned to mimic.
Most of the music being listened to on a daily basis is heard by people while on their own. Why would so many people be so determined to listen to music when there’s nobody with which they can share it? The first, most obvious reason is that music helps to transport them quickly to another place, it stimulates their imagination, it allows them to think of all of life’s possibilities.
A Place In Between’s “Into Bliss” feels like a soundtrack to a volcanic island exploding in slow motion or to Gods reassembling it just as slowly. The two main ingredients are, of course, the pacing and the lush, overpowering instrumentation. But it’s not just a recipe with A Place In Between is cooking here. There’s plenty of emotion here, too. It’s a moment, most important, trapped in sound forever.
