Zoey Tess – Knocking at Your Front Door
The truth’s always up for debate. And, while that’s quite a problem and makes important things never fully get solved, what can never be denied is how people feel, how strongly they’re doing it, and what they’ll be willing to do because of these feelings.
People on the other side of the Atlantic might have lost interest in U.S. politics somewhere around the last season, once it looked like scriptwriters had gotten lazy and started rehashing old plots. But those on the inside are certainly watching.
Regardless of whether you have an opinion on the matter, it’s hard not to feel the tension in the air. Just how thick is the air? Judging by Zoey Tess’s “Knocking at Your Front Door,” it’s enough to make you choke on it.
There’s a great amount of outrage captured in Zoey Tess’ music. To be fair, it’s a sentiment echoed by many. Most remarkably, the folksy “Knocking at Your Front Door” is not so much a protest song as a direct threat?
That kind of emotion can make for compelling listens, but is it warranted? The truth is debatable, sadly, but Tess’s voice speaks for great crowds of people. Perhaps it won’t all explode. But it’s best to remember just what people felt like when it looked like it could.
Devon Church – Fall Like Lightning
The world’s inhabitants have never been more suspicious. And, the people who’ve become the members of any particular club, group, or music scene are, typically, downright paranoid these days.
Old statues are falling fast, with previous heroes’ interviews, stage gear and lyrics being combed over by these unpaid enthusiasts looking for a reason to throw these old idols outside of the community, and lock the door behind them.
Devon Church is an awfully clever, interesting guy. He ought to be careful. This modern music world is not awfully keen on these kinds of characters. Church may be asking questions of how we’ve come to live the way we do, and of why we’ve forgotten our recent history, but this ain’t the time to be snooping around.
Church’s “Fall Like Lightning,” a lo-fi Dylanesque electro-folk number, is powered by densely layered lyrics that reference Margaret Thatcher, modern capitalism, and the virtual world of the internet. Devon Church’s bitter country-tinged performance is strong. But it almost sounds like he’s unhappy? And if he is, why doesn’t he tell us who he’s angry about? Let the internet decide if he’s right or if his name ought to be added to some Kafkaesque black list that he’ll never get out of.
