11/16/2023 0 Comments Casting plaster san diego![]() While sonically bearing a resemblance to Chromatics and others, the song expresses an aching yearning for understanding and companionship in a desperate, uncertain moment. Last month, I wrote about EP single “ Waves.” Beginning with an ethereal introductory section featuring dreamily cooed vocals and atmospheric synths, the song around the 25 second mark quickly ramps up to become a relentless, disco-tinged, motorik groove-driven bop with mournful synth pads and an infectious hook as a sinuous and lush bed for those dreamily delivered harmonies. ![]() And paradoxically through relinquishing control - and the possibility of it - there often comes a sense of great mindfulness and calm. “Ultimately the work of looking at your place in your relationships is worth the pain it can cause, as we are useless alone.”īut ultimately, the central theme at the heart of Control is the relinquishment of control in one’s life: The control of our thoughts, the control over the circumstances and impermanence of life, the control over a world that’s often confusing, uncertain and mad. ![]() “The songs are connected by themes of remoteness and looking at relationships as a negotiation of what you get and what you give up,” Plaster Cast’s Wilson explains. The material is rooted within the intersection of warmth and isolation - and the band’s desire to acknowledge their own literal and symbolic closeness and distance, shaped by each member’s own reality. And as a result, the EP reportedly feels more like a group of friends in a personal therapy session, in which all their collective fears, joys and uncertainties are shared in a way that touches upon a more expansive reflection of the human condition. The EP also sees a deeper sense of collaboration between the project’s core members, inspired by the insight that relinquishing one’s own ideas can provide both empowerment and diminishment simultaneously. alienation, and the self-consciousness of empathy - but in an understated, largely philosophical fashion. Understandably, informed by the vast changes of the sociopolitical climate that have occurred since 2016’s Permanence, Control EP thematically is a large, perceptive grown towards modernity with the EP’s material touching on various concepts of individualism vs. The project’s sophomore EP Control is slated for release tomorrow. ![]()
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