Morningless – The Cave
Everyone’s busy and in a hurry. Everyone seems to feel that the quicker they work on things, the better their chances of succeeding. And why shouldn’t they worry this way? There’s probably a software biting at your heels as we speak, promising to do your work quicker and with less of a hassle. It’s only natural that this would make you want to compete.
Modern music’s got no choice but to reflect this feeling of stress and anxiety. Pop songs get shorter every year, contain less distinctive musical or lyrical ideas, and get replaced with something brand new at a faster pace than ever before. That’s the reason why we should celebrate music that’s developed slowly, and that asks for your full attention, songs like the ones penned by Morningless.
“The Cave” is, according to the author, part of a musical project developed over the years. That attention to detail and willingness to let the song breathe and find itself are easy to recognise. “The Cave” resembles the ambitious prog-rock compositions of the 1970s. It is dynamic, instruments are allowed their solo, but take up each other’s spotlight, and the music sets a mood that you’re likely to find special enough that you’ll want to return to it.
El Culto Del Ojo Rojo – La Escafandra Eléctrica
First, they were legends. Ancient tales talked of islands stretched far into the ocean where only a few brave souls ever dared to travel. Even fewer ever managed to return to tell the tale, and how exactly they got there and back remains a topic of some debate. It all seemed like a tale bound to be covered in myths and half-truths.
But nowadays, those places get dozens of film crews every year. The place is swamped with tourists taking their own pictures and collecting seashells for their living room back home. And if you need any sort of detail about the place, you can, likely, just search for it online. Don’t you miss the mystery? Don’t you miss the scarcity of places that you know everything about?
El Culto Del Ojo Rojo try to embrace that uncertainty and make music for the kinds of places that can only exist in tall tales and fantasy. The band also embraces the braver, more experimentally-prone aspects of 1970s rock, especially of the Latin variety, on La Escafandra Eléctrica. If there’s any island still undiscovered, it can only exist at the tail-end of a song and the fantasy that accompanies it.
