The reflective, moving barometer of "The Road", the first single off of Los Angeles based Plum's self-titled EP (out now on Anxiety Blanket Records) is so exquisitely beautiful and depending on your headspace at the time may take you to internal places, to points of pain or catharsis. I absolutely love the guitar sound that has an essence of tape reverse (thought not reversed) and maybe tinges of phase shifting. Whatever the formula used it has the sensibility of water running, of nature like time in flux ever moving. The bass and shuffling bass artistry offers sounds and movements that push the emotionality off in interesting places. The keys that mirror the vocal melodies all work as mercurial lynch pins and the vocal countenance is saturated in the depth of life itself, coated with questions, longing and the inherent difficulty of finding elevation instead of depression.
This is what Ken Chesler of the band had to say regarding the single and the EP:
"I wrote this song in the wake of my third counterproductive relapse into regressive habits during the pandemic. I’d built myself up for weeks; working out, reading, and journaling only to find myself once again blowing days' worth of my youth on social media, junk food, porn, and YouTube videos. The song is an attempt to put into words and feelings the seemingly hopeless cycle many people find themselves incapable of breaking out of. Regardless of how many times they think they’ve escaped it. I feel like the song asks, “how much control do we really have over this life? Would I really be human if I could be productive and efficient all the time?” The whole time I had imagery of traffic, the human ant line, Sisyphus. You can see that imagery reflected in the music video we made for the song. I shot it over the course of 3 months across LA, Berkeley, and Toronto. It has a universal human quality to it. Almost as if to say, no matter where or who you are you will get knocked down, and instead of getting upset at this fact, accept that your susceptibility to relapse is what makes you human instead of android".
Music as art, as the steam from the teapot is always so important but thoughtful music takes it to another level as teaching as sonic inspiration. Also digging the Official Video as filmed and Edited by Ken Chesler.
[Plum’s debut self-titled EP was born at the height of the pandemic as a collaboration between songwriters Andrew Geroch and Ken Chesler. Eventually, the partnership grew into a group whose sound developed over the course of 2 years. The song on the album explore themes of moving forward after defeat, free will, sentimentality, and the shortness of life. The EP was recorded in the band's rehearsal studio in downtown Los Angeles.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6z2TH0bDd1rp016ZajDkKN
https://thebandplum.bandcamp.com/track/light
https://www.instagram.com/thebandplum/
Plum’s music is the meeting point of opposites, sweet yet sour, soft yet brittle, seething yet serene.
Plum’s debut self-titled EP was born at the height of the pandemic as a collaboration between songwriters Andrew Geroch and Ken Chesler. Eventually, the partnership grew into a group whose sound developed over the course of 2 years. The song on the album explore themes of moving forward after defeat, free will, sentimentality, and the shortness of life. The EP was recorded in the band's rehearsal studio in downtown Los Angeles.
The Plum EP will be release May 5th, 2023 through Anxiety Blanket Records.
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