Memories. At certain points in our life these ghosts in our head, sometimes sounds and images between reality and illusion are the only things that fuel us. All we have to pull us through, to push us forward and, at the same time, other memories can, of course, be terrifying yet even these memory monsters can be used as fuel, touchstones of survivorship.
I thought of this as I listened to the very evocative, very moving "Head Full of Holes" by Los Angeles based ill peach. The track, that seems to bridge progressive alt rock with bedroom pop, moves on heavy tactile bass sounds with lovely distortions. I can't tell if these sounds are produced by synths or effected bass ( I thought of Jesse Keeler from Death From Above 1979) but I absolutely dig the sound here, and like DFA1979, ill peach are also a duo, namely Jess Corazza and Pat Morrissey. The trip hop / alt rock beats, machine or real are exquisite too, as is the percolations of ambient atmospheres, glacial keys, dashes of 8-bit, all pushing against, leaning on Corazza's magnetic vocal countenance offering dark and light streams of poetry.
"These memories burn artificial lines / In my mind / In my mind / But these memories are keeping me alive / I’m alive / I’m alive / All these memories are burning embers / Leave them alive or leave them alone / Got a head full of holes / Say goodbye say hello / Got a head full of holes"
Of the track, ill peach offer:
[HEAD FULL OF HOLES is about our obsession with nostalgia. This urge to have a tight grip on certain memories. Sometimes the beautiful and the painful ones get distorted because we want to remember them a certain way. We both had experiences like that in therapy this past year. It’s part of the healing journey to decipher between how much of the past is real and how much of it is how we embellished it in our minds. We started writing HFOF when we took our first trip to London. We were listening to a lot of Coldplay, My bloody Valentine and Radiohead there. Naturally. And we heard Radiohead talk about the infinite climax in a song so this is us trying that out.]
I will play this on repeat tonight as I drift off to sleep, it will stimulate my dreams.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.tiktok.com/@illpeachmypeach
https://open.spotify.com/artist/79E3M2o4FRthRViQXaCWDt
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCryTuqT3g7uFKeDQ4gBo8sg
https://www.instagram.com/illpeach__/
LA based grit-pop duo
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