"walk into the ocean looking for a piece of me"
The sound on "Walk Into The Ocean" with it's darkwave affections does have (to me) a post punk swing to it, a feeling I get from the vocal aesthetic that feels more artfully poised and chewed on than a lot of Gothic wave or electronic indie music. As I am oftentimes rooted in the 70's and 80's, the vox tone here, brooding but wide eyed, reminds me of Stan Ridgway a bit (Wall Of Vodoo) in it's guttural yet art pop wail.
Engineering Bureau shares:
[Written whilst trapped in an airport lounge for 4 days in Casablanca, it is a commentary on our disassociation with reality reaching tipping point - a modern day “Piano Man”.
It's about being so absorbed by coping with pain that my wasted life slips by unnoticed, losing pieces of myself along the way until I realize too late I have missed the chance to leave my mark on an ever shrinking world as I am trapped in my own mind. That I will die forgotten as entropy takes its inevitable toll and I slowly disintegrate, decaying and dissolving into the ocean of pain I spent my whole life trying to escape.]
Dark times produce dark themed music, art but as long as we don't lost the light we win.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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EB explores the human condition and our relationship with technology in observation of a generation at the precipice of unmitigated technological revolution in a world with a glossier and friendlier sheen than Orwell would have seen in his mind’s eye. One where individualism erodes into a headless and faceless amorphism. A world with an increasingly engineered collective mindset numbed by our proclivity to seek constant validation. One where we may no longer exist as self, merging into each other in a raging storm of data.
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