Psychiatric Metaphors – Wax Mirrors
Nothing great happens when you opt to walk in a straight line most of the time. Where are you supposed to get to when you’re walking that way? How can anything surprising ever occur?
Nah, in all of the areas that are of importance, art, especially, great happen only when some kind of militaristic discipline is put in place, or when absolutely no discernable pattern is used.
And since artists tend to take more easily to lack of discipline then to the presence of it, the clowns, monumental screwups, and spiritual visionaries are the ones who are able to create anything worthwhile. What’s more, it’s a method that they advertise to anyone who might want to try a bit of the same for themselves.
Psychiatric Metaphors’ “Wax Mirrors” sounds like a American military department made of deeply paranoid avatgarde artists asked to coordinate an attack on an enemy nation without creating physical casualties. What they’ll do instead is make psych-rock meant to drive the listeners unfamiliar to these kind of rock n’ roll strategies psychotic. It’s easy picking after that. It’s a war won by breaking down patterns.
Sylvia Fae – Sugar Tree
Thomas Pynchon, if he indeed ever truly existed, said that escaping from paranoia is an escape from the movement of life itself. The reclusive author who writes novels in the way that someone might write the dictionary from memory uses paranoia like a chef uses salt. Everything is an excuse to get to it, and nothing works without it.
In that, Pynchon not only predicted the future state of the world but also gave us a key. We’re far too familiar and bored with our daily routines, just as well as with the world’s gruesome truths. Treating every issue with a selective dose of paranoia is enough to make everything brand new, interesting, and dangerous again. If only we had that in music”?
Luckily for us, Sylvia Fae’s “Sugar Tree” answers that call and treats to music that feels made by some modern, on-the-run cult. That in itself makes it much more interesting than most indie band, whose primary concern is managing their social media. Sylvia Fae takes inspiration from ’60s psychedelic rock, the zenith of American cults and American cult-rock. That’s enough for me, and I should start assembling the pieces and getting to the bottom of what it all means just as soon as they stop staring at me.
