Furrows – Never Here
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: Sufjan Stevens, Tame Impala, Beck, Elliot Smith, Radiohead
Silent discos are a beautiful way to spend your time and a symbol of the modern, Western world during these days. These are places where strangers dance together. The only thing is that the people on the dance floor are all moved by different tunes. Everyone is wearing headphones through which they can hear the songs of their choice and, of course, avoid the endless chit-chat of dance partners.
It’s an interesting thing to consider. People aren’t moved by the same energy produced by one piece of music but by the idea of being together. It’s all rather desperate and beautiful in a truly lonesome kind of way. Silent discos needn’t e searched for only on the dance floor. They can be found in shopping malls, public transport, and even offices. We’re all trying to block out the rest of the world somehow.
Furrows’s Never Here is a bittersweet psych-rock song that years for real human connection. The recent couple of years and the restrictions of the pandemic have furthered the distance between people, physical and mental. It’s never been so easy to be alone and rarely more painful. This song might not achieve the incredible task of bringing us all together. It could, however, make a lot of us realize that we are not in this all separately.
Sleep Kicks – Neptune
Genre: Pop Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Roc
Similar artists: Editors, Team Me
Throughout its history, rock music has had the chance to be infiltrated by poets and visionaries. For the most part, one could sense that they never mainly wanted to be there. These weren’t the kids in leather jackets, driving fast cars, and talking sweetly to lonesome girls looking for a date. But rock music was a party, and everybody was already there.
Some of these poets were lured over by the promise of undivided attention from willing audiences. This was not something that a lifetime spent in the service of literature could provide. Others enjoyed the chaos. Rock concerts had these, but book readings did not. And, as time passed, others simply looked at their heroes, poets turned rock musicians, and felt a genuine kinship.
Sleep Kicks’ excellently produced Neptune is a song written under a powerful impression from other rockstars who possess a library card and use it often. It’s music was created as a strong mix of soundtrack-appropriate post-punk and poetic snobbishness. It sounds better than most songs, and the highborn attitude will surely make some become ardent followers. Some poets drift in and out of rock music, while others develop their work to enhance the music, as do Sleep Kicks here.
Sleep Kicks’ excellently produced Neptune is a song written under a powerful impression from other rockstars who possess a library card and use it often.
