"you can't even tell us apart from a distance"
Talk Cool is the latest music project of Preston James and The Crown is beautifully cool with dark emotional edges. There is a sort of grand majestic vibe within the stately synths and big bottom tom toms laced with equal parts sadness and longing and with glimmers of hope too. It somehow feels like the stuff of resistance as in resistance movement against a large oppression, "bury bodies until we get what we want and they listen". That makes if feel very relevant today or maybe always.
"The Crown is about how positions of power are set up to be easier to obtain for psychopaths and sociopaths since positions of power often require a lack of empathy to those whom the oversee." - Talk Cool aka Preston James
The Crown may be prescient or a caveat or a metaphor for how we position ourselves to others in everyday life or a plea for love and empathy. It maybe a lot of things. Great art makes you ask questions.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Talk Cool is the most recent music project by songwriter Preston James. The project began in 2018 when Preston returned to composing after taking 4 years off.
Partnering with Charles Barth (Saddles, Actual Baby) to produce and mix the music project, Preston set out to create music that is focused on catchy melodies backed by a gloomy sonic aesthetic.
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