"you got the big break / they’ll fit you in their pockets / it feels like Friday / Saturday never comes..."
"Magazines" by Boston based experimental pop / indie rock musician and producer R.M. Hendrix feels off from the very onset. I absolutely love the reverse splatter of guitar feedback and exquisitely vintage synth sound that feel like strings filtered through a 1920's silent Fritz Lang film as Hendrix mournfully croons:
[The proud have scattered imagination
Their hearts can’t have what they want
Hungry are fed, rich made poor
He’s done great things for me]
Their hearts can’t have what they want
Hungry are fed, rich made poor
He’s done great things for me]
And, and... that is only the beginning. What follows are different shapes and shifts in tones as if Hendrix's raw ID is explored sonically along the way while he is on a therapist's couch. I am joking, or maybe half joking but that is what it feels like to me. It is a delicious wild ride and while I would gleefully love to describe that ride, me doing so would only ruin it. I will tell you that there are surreal shifts throughout with lovely piano narratives, pulsating synths, drones of sound, disembodied voices, trippy and transforming guitar lines, plodding drum beats that become frenetic beats that chase them selves, stalking bass lines and wonderful Yorkian-esque freak outs.
Now while I reverted to describing this surreal ride as Dadaistic in nature, press notes reveal the opposite as from the author himself:
["Magazines" explores the ephemeral nature of the digital era through a literary lens, contrasting the biblical story of Mary's Annunciation with a jealous, unnamed celebrity shoved to the side. The persona moves through stages of anger ("You can't take this away from me!"), despair ("Nothing breaks except me," and ultimately finds resolution through a declaration of revenge, "I'm coming for ya!"]
"Magazine" exists for me as a sonic reflective dream that makes me glad that I am moved by music and that I, in some way, share gems like this to others. I always hope that good music, good art inspires others to create more.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/RMHNDRX
https://twitter.com/rm_hendrix
https://rmhendrix.bandcamp.com/
https://rmhendrix.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3YZlrlHk09yMgUe6LJw6NQ
https://www.instagram.com/r.m.hendrix/
https://soundcloud.com/rmhendrix
R.M. Hendrix is an experimental-pop musician, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Boston, incorporating elements of psych, trip-hop, shoegaze, indie, and alt-rock.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/RMHNDRX
https://twitter.com/rm_hendrix
https://rmhendrix.bandcamp.com/
https://rmhendrix.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3YZlrlHk09yMgUe6LJw6NQ
https://www.instagram.com/r.m.hendrix/
https://soundcloud.com/rmhendrix
R.M. Hendrix is an experimental-pop musician, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Boston, incorporating elements of psych, trip-hop, shoegaze, indie, and alt-rock.
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R.M.Hendrix, Indietronica, Indie Rock, post rock, experimental tones, dark distortions, shape shifting, surreal opera, "Magazines", Boston, producer, musician, singer songwriter, divergent thinker,
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