Pictureplane – Heaven is a State of Mind
We’d all die for a bit of danger. But can you blame us? Sure, nobody’d really like to be blamed for witchcraft by the Christian Church and tortured to death. But it’s the idea itself that’s a bit more stimulating than planning your daily work commute.
Music fits our greatest fantasies perfectly. It moulds to them and allows them to increase the impact of those sounds upon the imagination. Songs feel like they create both the witches and the swing of the axe of the executioner, and then make them disappear.
Pictureplane specialises in these kinds of illusions. And people from all walks of life naturally drift toward these sounds and the fantasies that accompany them. They help make life more interesting, and they even help answer some of the strangest questions about life.
Pictureplane’s “Heaven is a State of Mind” works around familiar goth-tinged sounds and synth-heavy dark-wave grooves. It’s a song as danceable as a disco hit and as dark as a dungeon. It’s a tune about facing the worst in this world and understanding that peace can only be achieved by healing one’s mind. Goth songs often flirt with philosophical topics. Pictureplane’s music is no different, although the danceable grooves only add to their impact.
JEWLS – We’ve Invented Speed
I really do hope that we’re rushing toward extinction. Otherwise, if we’re not, all of these thousands and thousands of songs written on the topic will just seem pointless. Somebody’ll listen to them years into the future and conclude that we, part of these generations, were just in love with pessimism. Maybe they’ll think that we simply gave ourselves too big a role in a cataclysm that never happened.
But we should be forgiven for being arrogant to believe that it’s us who will turn off the lights. We’ve had plenty to endure. The tools we’ve created to better our lives or, simply, to entertain us have turned us into their slaves. These tools have only increased our suffering. And it’s those who allow themselves to feel these emotions the deepest who are most affected.
JEWLS’ dark, gothic-tinged “We’ve Invented Speed” is a song about humanity’s illusion of progress. It’s a song about the End Times as shown on your new flat screen TV or iPhone. Over a slow-paced, mysterious groove, JEWLS create a soundscape that’s both tense and alluring. It’s a song delivered like an ancient tragedy, a siren’s call. If the end doesn’t come, we’ll just be left with a lot of great songs.
