Vinyl Williams – Eden
Maybe the great deities are just folks who got bored with their daily commute from work. Perhaps one day – boom – their imagination started creating colourful shapes and sounds out of necessity to make life just a little more interesting.
Yeah, it’s likely that we’re the ones stuck inside someone else’s daydream. Why would we imagine ourselves to be such sophisticated creatures that we’d be above those? Reality might not be anything other than a Vynil Williams song.
It’d make sense, too. Or, rather, the fact that a few things, when analysed in great detail, make sense, would fit the theory. And who’s to say that Vynil Williams can be among the only dreamers having all the fun? What’s stopping you from building a world on your commute?
“Eden” by Vynil Williams dares to create paradise, colour inside the lines and fold it all back up. The sounds, as well as the accompanying visuals, aren’t meant to make you forget about your life. It’s just meant to make everything a little less crummy and make you feel just a little more hopeful. There’s great potential in this King Gizzard-inspired sound, and a reminder to keep giving your imagination a workout every time that you can.
Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Gutter Priestess
The music industry’s finally figured out how to handle rock bands – dial things down and sell lemonade to the people in the first rows. Using tactics that might work in running a fairground has increased profits, limited deaths by misadventure, and created top-notch professionals. Then why is everything so boring and why does everyone involved with rock music look like they moonlight as accountants on the weekends?
Maybe it’s because all of those clever tactics have helped shows, recording sessions and photo sessions run smoothly, but have, also, made the great characters of rock n’ roll run away. Frankie and the Witch Fingers dare to dream of a time when the only people allowed to make a living were the ones who’d made such terrible life choices that no other industry would employ them. Those were the days.
What does Frankie and the Witch Fingers sound like? Chaotic rock n’ roll reeled in just enough so that it can be smoothly, accurately caught on tape. “Gutter Priestess,” in fact, resembles hippie musicians if they’d outstayed their welcome and had to end up replacing acid with speed and cheap beer. It’s a song about the romance of hanging out with someone like William S. Burroughs or Johnny Thunders and somehow surviving to tell the tale. And for all those who’d cower away from such experiments, Frankie and the Witch Fingers deliver the play-by-play through songs like this.
