Sturi Zevele – Neviens
Everybody loves a secret. If you want someone to fall in love with you, or at least to become obsessed, promise them that you will never reveal a random piece of information. Knowing that the information exists will drive them mad and will force them to ask you incessantly you have mercy on them and to confess. It doesn’t even much matter if the information you possess is unimportant and of no help to anybody.
Modern music, of course, can work in the same way. A lot of clever musicians are just figuring this out and also learning that when assembling a mystery, less is, certainly, more.
Sure, there was a time when, to prove your worth as a musician, you attempted to play as many notes as possible quickly. However, supplying audiences with all that information merely manages to tire them, to take interest away from them.
Latvia’s Sturi Zevele’s “Neviens” knows exactly how much or little information they want to offer their audiences. They make a chilling, seductive, electro-powered, goth-tangent sound. The music video perfectly captures the energy of this as it features participants in a shadowy ceremony. It’s a danceable but dark and minimalist sound. It’s stylish, drawn in sharp, clear, contrasting lines. Sturi Zevele know how to draw up a mystery, and audiences will, no doubt, flock to have tier questions answered.
The Secrecy – A Big World
It’s not just a good idea to start investing in some heavy-duty daydreaming, but a way to ensure you’ll be ready for the future. Since, at times, our minds can hardly tell the difference between reality and self-made fantasy, daydreaming is one of the best, certainly cheapest ways to practice for life’s challenges. And, beyond it beats, scrolling endlessly through your phone.
But, I would be bold to recommend that you shouldn’t daydream about wonderful, relaxing things. At least, not often. If imagination is a tool, best use for the things that you wish not to happen and for the things that, were they to happen, would be complicated to solve. Terrible things to happen in good times and to great people. They ought to be prepared.
Modern gothic rock with its sounds of dungeons and promises of eternal night, is the perfect soundtrack to deprivation. The Secrecy’s “A Big World” sounds, indeed, like the music made either by a society of people preparing for the End of Days, and/or engaging in kinky sexual activities in the aforementioned dungeons. The differences, in truth, are minute. The Secrecy has the mysterious, late-at-night stroll kind of sound down. And it’s up to you, your imagination, and your tolerance for the disturbing to see just how you’ll want to use it.
