Othrship – A Captain’s Final Message
The journey is often better than the destination. And this is the reason why so many people find strategies to find themselves on the road, heading toward something, at all times. These people also never pay much attention to whether they’re going to reach the target. That part is not important and, in fact, best avoided. Reaching the destination would mean getting back to the drudgery of real life.
Othrship is a band that has understood the secret of most explorers, including rock n’ rollers. Touring life is a terrible ordeal, but one that most musicians would rather never leave. It’s much the same, albeit under different working conditions, for ship personnel or door-to-door salesmen. This is a life of great, wonderful uncertainties and few real responsibilities.
Othrship’s “A Captain’s Final Message” ends the band’s psychedelic journey through the stars. No matter how charming or pleasant, the musicians serving on this ship have to call it a day. No matter how good the riffs or danceable the grooves, somebody has to eventually pull the plug. “A Captain’s Final Message” is the last gasp effort to escape the world’s atmosphere through music and imagination. This makes the crash back down all the more violent.
ELLIOT MOSS – Bad Neighbors
You need terrible leadership for a strong opposition. You need people at the top acting badly for those who want to take their place to put in the effort to make themselves look like potential saviours.
This is exactly what has been happening in the world of pop-rock music for a while now. While music, especially singles, has progressively gotten shorter, cheaper to make and, often, does less attached to the person whose name is on the box, a breed of artist has popped up looking to provide an alternative.
Elliot Moss has been part of that group of rebels for more than a decade. But their approach is not new. It is simply not fashionable to create great studio-devised musical odysseys right now.
But there’s an audience looking to get lost in a good pop song. And these listeners require the kind of attention to detail that Eliott Moss poured into “Bad Neighbors” over 10 years ago. If anything, this re-release proves that the artist’s instinct was right – there are still music fans who want songs that use the full potential of their headphones, and they’re the most devoted kinds of fans.
