"Dancing Beside you / It's painful / Believe me / I like The sunshine / And lately / It's raining / Smiling / Laughing / Your hand / I'm grasping / But inside I'm dying / I'm silent / I'm praying..."
The slightly broken Western Pop Noir of "I'm Praying" by Freedom Shapes leans into the delicately placed musical tightrope aesthetic between dark surreality and old school Dr. Demento. I mean, in the late, late 1970's, Freedom Shapes could have successfully opened up for Devo or Captain Beefheart. I also could easily imagine "I'm Praying" during the 'radiator' scene of David Lynch's "Eraserhead". The doo wop meets 4 square picnic table waltz meets a retro yogurt commercial meets Marty Robbins-esque Western noir is at once really beautiful but kind of bent too, I mean at certain times (specifically the talky "Oh Lord...) had me thinking of the goofy comedic lean of Steve Martin (during his halcyonic stand up days).
NOW that is one take, the first one but secondly after repeated listens "I'm Praying" as the manifestation of the ID at it's darkest, as an alter ego bloodletting, is very melancholy... very melancholy.
LINER NOTES from the artist:
"I'm Praying is a surrealist alternative pop song by Freedom Shapes that subtly aims to present the dichotomy between internal and external states during times of mental uncertainty and psychosis. I'm Praying lyrics present itself as an honest dialogue between the artist and the viewer about overwhelming feelings of failure and the internal silent anxiety that these states induce."
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/freedomshapes/
https://freedomshapes.com/
My name is Freedom Shapes. I have 700 loop pedals connected to a flute.
Freedom Shapes, alt pop, surreal pop, dark folk, Western pop noir, abstract pop, experimental music, "I'm Praying" (Official Video), existential dread, whimsical, melancholia,
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