Violet UltraRay – ride
Just as the most beautiful places in the world are this way because they contrast with the rest of what’s around them, some of the greatest songs work by providing you with great hooks and threatening to take them away.
If you want to write songs that sound the same way the whole way through, I’m sorry to say, but you’re likely to end up as a pop producer or a member of a non-descript heavy metal band.
Violet UltraRay, on the other hand, knows how powerful rock music can be when it creates expectations and doesn’t immediately fulfil them. Audiences have their ears tuned to strain for great rewards and are willing to do the hard work for them.
Violet UltraRay makes the very best of the potential of rock bands to carve out colossal amounts of sound to their liking. The chorus to the shoegaze-inspired “ride” sounds like an avalanche. But the singing across the other parts of the song allows the listener the respite to prepare for a new sonic assault. It’s a cleverly crafted piece that betrays the marks of good taste.
Scoobert Doobert – best. day. ever.
The hardest thing is taking it easy, and easy money is the quickest to be lost. But what’s there to be done about it? What strategy is likeliest to improve your chances of finding a place on Easy Street?
There aren’t many people that you can ask for advice. After all, most of the great, rich rock stars, as it turns out, are/were stressed-out workaholics who never got to enjoy their riches. By contrast, most regular people are stuck in offices, dreaming of some rest and relaxation and unaware of where they can turn for help.
Scoobert Doobert has the answer. The modern psych-pop artists look at life no differently than wise Buddhists who’ve realised that a spot in the middle may just be the quickest way that there is to a Heaven on Earth.
The hyper and ultra-produced “best. day. ever.” is a Summery ode about doing something good for someone else for a change. This is a song about giving a friend a “wake and bake” birthday celebration, a morning-to-midnight party to help offset all of the stress accumulated in their life. It’s not to listen to these sounds and believe that Scoobert Doobert must’ve found just the right way.
