24-07-2022, 13:24
DAWES ~ Misadventures of Doomscroller
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Based on what I’d heard of the album prior to its release, there didn’t seem to be much chance it would disappoint – and it doesn’t. Somehow, they strike a wonderful balance between relevant, intelligent, competent, sophisticated and edgy. It's called 'Indie Rock' by Discogs which I suspect is a term for not easy to define; they include all sorts of interesting elements. Some of the best contemporary music I’ve heard recently, for sure. Can't be easy translating existential crises into listenable arrangements and they manage to do this adroitly and with flair! One of my new favourite bands – definitely a cut above - well worth all 46 minutes and 7 seconds of listening time and on the ‘to purchase’ list. Maybe there’s hope after all!
Since I’ve posted several others already, I’m choosing to highlight these two tracks – the first “Everything is Permanent” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLRR8umjn0A about which Taylor Goldsmith (writer, guitarist and lead vocalist) says …
“This is a song (about how everything about us is tracked, documented, recorded, filed, mined, bought, sold, etc. etc. on some level) that is wrapped around a molten core of a breakdown/freakout/majorminorinterweave that is probably the moment I’m most proud of on the whole record. After showing you the blood and guts, we gently sew the song back together again and end with what could be the tagline for all of social media and the screen-life-culture that we subscribe to these days to varying degrees: "Did you really need to cry? Or be seen crying?"
And the sonically beguiling final track … “Sound That No One Made / Doomscroller Sunrise” …
Based on what I’d heard of the album prior to its release, there didn’t seem to be much chance it would disappoint – and it doesn’t. Somehow, they strike a wonderful balance between relevant, intelligent, competent, sophisticated and edgy. It's called 'Indie Rock' by Discogs which I suspect is a term for not easy to define; they include all sorts of interesting elements. Some of the best contemporary music I’ve heard recently, for sure. Can't be easy translating existential crises into listenable arrangements and they manage to do this adroitly and with flair! One of my new favourite bands – definitely a cut above - well worth all 46 minutes and 7 seconds of listening time and on the ‘to purchase’ list. Maybe there’s hope after all!
Since I’ve posted several others already, I’m choosing to highlight these two tracks – the first “Everything is Permanent” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLRR8umjn0A about which Taylor Goldsmith (writer, guitarist and lead vocalist) says …
“This is a song (about how everything about us is tracked, documented, recorded, filed, mined, bought, sold, etc. etc. on some level) that is wrapped around a molten core of a breakdown/freakout/majorminorinterweave that is probably the moment I’m most proud of on the whole record. After showing you the blood and guts, we gently sew the song back together again and end with what could be the tagline for all of social media and the screen-life-culture that we subscribe to these days to varying degrees: "Did you really need to cry? Or be seen crying?"
And the sonically beguiling final track … “Sound That No One Made / Doomscroller Sunrise” …
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson
