The Miserable Rich – FHS
Genre: Indie Folk, Folk
There are very few who are looking to create art that lasts forever, art that could belong to any era and that can be enjoyed by practically anyone. Everyone else is following a trend. Take music, for example, and blame it on fear and a desperate desire to be liked.
Chasing trends is a bit like choosing looks over intellect. One of them is sure to go one day and will leave the person who opted for this feeling terrible. Trying to create something that your great-grandfather might have liked or that your great-grandchildren will enjoy might just be your best shot at present.
The Miserable Rich’s “FHS” is not really a song so much as an old-timey mood. It echoes the past in many subtle ways, so much that you’d think you just stepped into a flashback scene from a television movie. But it achieves its target with minimal effort and an extremely supple construction. You can play this in any era, and people will get it. But, mostly, it will be used for Autumn TikTik reels.
Simians – Arches
Similar artists: Ólafur Arnalds
Genre: Indie Folk
If services like Spotify did anything right, is understood the role of the mix-tape and the fact that people didn’t want to lose it knowing that technology had changed. Fans are just as creative with music as the artists who make it. After all, it is the fans who find a place for the music and allow it to interact with the most intimate aspects of their lives.
What’s the music that you play when sad? Is it the same music that plays in the background as you’re cooking? And, would you play any of that when on a road trip that could potentially change your life for the better? Of course, you wouldn’t use the same music. Not if you have any common sense and good taste.
Simians’ “Arches” is a piece of music designed specifically and exclusively to light up your mind when moving, travelling, or going someplace in search of truth. It flows easily and uses sound to add strokes of colour, not to make any grand statements. But, you know what? Almost nothing else would do in this kind of situation, making “Arches” a pretty special piece of music.
