The Goodbye Radio – Twisted Time Travelers
I’ve gotta get on that Nostalgia Train. That’s where the big money is. It’s especially true if you’re making any sort of entertainment-related content. All of the vlogs, blogs, and newsletters decrying the loss of some Golden Age make fortunes.
It’s fashionable to cry about how music ain’t what it used to be. You can even excuse some of the folks who truly believe this. But wasn’t the whole point about pop culture that it changed quickly, and with the times?
Besides, if you want specialists in glorious, retro-sounding records, they’re out there. Just listen to The Goodbye Radio take you on a trip of 60s London through one love song about love unfulfilled and time under the strain of time.
In fact, The Goodbye Radio doesn’t just echo the beautiful harmonies and melodies of Beatlesque rock n’ roll. “Twisted Time Travelers” humorously plays around with the idea that the moment you’re in never feels like the moment in which you should’ve landed. Nothing happens at the right time, but great music is available for those who search all the time.
Nixa – Span.exe
If all the stats and predictions are wrong and there is a Heaven, then there is surely a Hell too, and that’s the place where the majority of us will end up. It’s too late to change anything this late in the game. In fact, the best you can do is learn to make the best of the circumstances.
And, if those places do exist, the brightest and most inventive minds will end up designing Hell. Now, there’s a place where eccentric ideas can flourish. There’s not much to work with when it comes ot Heaven. It’s all white drapes, Spring weather and spa music. There’s nothing that Nixa can contribute to hear, but wait…
What’s the soundtrack in Hell? Not even the infernal forces can sit around working all day without some tunes. And if Hell’s one giant supermarket for tortures, the ones handling the supply and doing the accounting will want to make sure they can depend on music that speaks to them as well as induces a sense of anxiety and uncertainty to the souls being boiled in baths of acid.
Romania’s Nixa makes music that is hellishly clever, diabolically hooky and evil enough to get under your skin and stay there. It’s also a symptom of how music’s evolved above ground. There’s a nostalgia kick in just about every genre, and Nixa’s music calls to mind pop-dance music of the 1990s and the burgeoning internet culture. The sounds and production themselves are excellently put together to create a kind of sophisticated tackiness, a cartoon about time moving in a loop from the ‘90s to 2005 and back again. And if living out that era continuously is not the definition of Hell on Earth, what is?
