Lou Monroe and the other worldly, sci-fi filmic "phantasm"

 

"in the still of the night / I am touching / a quiet kind of light..."

The translucent "phantasm" by the mysterious cipheric songstress Lou Monroe feels sci-fi filmic. The organica meets electronica aesthetic made me think of the beautiful allure of Joi, the customizable hologram of Officer K's (Ryan Gosling) in Blade Runner 2049. As K's romantic partner, Joi was more than she seemed, a sentient being maybe even capable of love. The orchestral electronica of "phantasm" suggests more too and delivers. Monroe's truly synthetic voice both enhances and covers up the human feeling inside and the pushed fantasy making is stunning. The hushed voices, the tribal feeling might suggest huge man made ships gliding through space or vast sand dunes. The sensation is journey-esque or an intro to the next Sci-fi binger on Hulu or Netflix.

"phantasm" ends as it should, beautiful and chasing it's tail. Leave it on repeat and it feels like a never ending dream.

-Robb Donker Curtius

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4UUPiltOjzHZqY1ngTNWWE

https://www.instagram.com/loumonroevibes

https://linktr.ee/loumonroe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPA6IUL8gMc


This song is a fever dream.

You remember each creak in the floorboard of this infinite stretch of a hallway. You remember the wallpaper and the way it peels and in which corner. You know where the light dances across the cold wood and where it distorts into new, stranger doors who contents spill into nightmares. Whose shadow cast makes you feel afraid. You close your eyes. Hope to sink somewhere else. But still, the doors. Doors that steal your hope and fill their distended, splintered bellies with your hope of finding the end.

the ever extending hallway, imminent for all time.

The echoes of your former self, quiet.

The phantasm who is always seeking you.

no matter where you go.

and so-

you must run,

as fast as you can.

you never die.

you can never die.

for you are the phantasm.

Lou Monroe, dream pop, alt pop, sci fi, experimental, electronica, orchestral pop, post punk, alt rock, fantasy rock, "phantasm", dreamy, ethereal, organica,