His Old Chain and the opened bottled up feelings of "Out in the Sun"

 

"do you ever fell like you're alone / something always seems to go wrong / I just want to feel it in my soul  / no I'm not the one in control...."

"Out in the Sun" by His Old Chain is at once pretty, nimble and hyper, holding angst in it's pocket and in the words. From the instantly urgent trip-hop-ish beats that seems to run so fast that all the other instrumentation is merely trying to keep up. And keep up they do, artfully so. The sounds, pearly guitars, bending, tweaked synth sounds, a bass pad that is sparse but more than enough for this somber tug. I dig the conversation, the soothing backing vox against so much going on like two many people talking to each other at a funeral. The words are riddled with the longing to feel better, to make things better with seemingly easy steps that are difficult to walk. 

When the beat and tension ends, we are left with melancholy keys and maybe don't know quite what to say or think, just like when "Out in the Sun" begins. 

-Robb Donker Curtius 

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://soundcloud.com/hisoldchain

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2XHWnDRUhmVtArE1XxAgla

https://www.instagram.com/hisoldchain/


somber pop

His Old Chain, bedroom pop, indie pop, pop noir, "Out in the Sun", indie rock, alt pop, somber pop, beautiful melancholia,