Omo Cloud – Sometimes
You can’t just go around playing whatever kind of music you like at any kind of event. People will flip out, go mad and launch complaints. They’ll find you, punish you and make it damn sure to anyone that such things are not to be tolerated.
You may think that modern pop-rock music is a harmless distraction. Much of it may be designed to be that way. But could you imagine a morning disk jockey playing heavy metal at their morning radio show? No!
Just as well, what would people think if the Church choir decides to cover some old, evil-sounding blues song? And would regular people be able to stand someone hearing a real song of heartache as they run their day-to-day errands?
Omo Cloud hopes to stun you, to produce the kind of song that won’t allow you to carry on with your day as you did. “Sometimes” doesn’t look to achieve this through aggressive tones or some clever gimmick. It does that through old-fashioned, heartbreaking verses about love and disappointment. And if you can’t handle it, that’s just as well. Sometimes music ought to have just this effect.
MISTER RAMIREZ – Cuckooland
Dreamers and empaths have it hard these days. After all, it’s not always what’s actually happening that drives a person to madness, but what they’re convinced that’s happening. And with the little black screen in your pocket supplying bad news at all hours of the day, it’s hard to learn to ignore them.
It’s easy to become disconnected from the world, to feel alone, to convince yourself that all of the terrible things will simply drive you insane eventually. But what were the things that used to bring us together? What were some of the things about which we all could agree? Mister Ramirez dares to think about this.
Rock’ n’ roll gatherings may not seem like much, but apart from gigantic sports events, they are some of the few great symbols of peace and coming together that we have left. They’re one of the only ways to share dreams about a better tomorrow in a meaningful way.
Míster Ramírez’s “Cuckooland” is a classic rock ballad about a new set of problems. It’s a song about being driven insane by the endless barrage of bad news. But Míster Ramírez, an indie-rock Steven Tyler performing flamboyantly and with wild abandon, isn’t here just to remind us of the troubles. “Cuckooland” is also a song of hope and a reminder that together we may all make some sense of this crazy, old world.
