Placement and the spiraling in control empowered post punk crush of "It's Over"

photo courtesy of Nash Blight


The hailstorm that is "It's Over" by Tarntanya/Adelaide’s Placement is artfully raucous. There is a sort of early 90's British post punk subversion and subterfuge. The proto punk meets prog alt rock musicality (top shelf, wow) and vocal aesthetic is the stuff of serious hours on their instruments or the stuff of jazz kids who discovered pere ubu, magazine, television, siouxsie and the banshees and wanted to create their own brand new unique iteration and they have. I am, of course, just speaking off the top of my head or out of the orifice I sit on, depending on your perspective. Maybe I will get a chance to talk to these spirited artists(?) 

I adore this. There is a sense that the squealing juxtaposed sounds on their way to dissonance colliding with painful sax wails and darkly dreamy vocals is supposed to feel cinematic like a midnight weird movie in that one adorable theater that doesn't care to make a shit ton of money but just love compelling experimental flicks. This importance of art as much as writing a song, as equally weighted out is something I appreciate. 

The seeds of a song are important:

Malia Wearn (vocals) on It’s Over:

“‘It’s Over’ is a song about ending things that aren’t working. Part of the inspiration came from a horrible phonecall with a customer that left me crying in my cubicle. To make myself feel better and counteract their bad vibes I used the experience for this song. Around the same time I was also reflecting on endings and the freedom brought from taking control of relationships in life that are damaging or unfulfilling and choosing not to continue them. It was something I’d only recently had the courage to do, and it brought such a euphoric feeling of relief and self determination. Experiences where you feel a bit powerless in life are always really powerful to write about in songs, a purging of any bad feelings. So this is a song about the power of ending things, hang up the phone, don’t make the date, take control of your destiny because you know ‘It’s Over’.”  

I dig through a lot of muck to find songs that make it all worth it and this is one of them.

-Robb Donker Curtius

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

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Post-punk/noise-rock from Kaurna Land (Adelaide, Australia).

Through a juxtaposition of experimental feedback, dissonance, rich vocal harmonies and spoken word, Placement deliver a ferocious and often partially improvised live show, influenced by performance art.

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