"So you are the famous white light / You'd have to see to believe / The warm glow of home / That steals you like sleep..."
The rhythmic dreaminess and wistful melancholia of "Molly Coddle" by Route 500, the artful musical Brighton UK based project surrounding songwriter / musician Derek Inver, might hypnotize you instantly, as it did me. As a boomer my breathe and scope surrounding music is all over the place and from the get go I thought of iconic touchstones like Todd Rundgren, Pavement, Radiohead and, oddly enough (or not), Yo La Tengo. This is not to say that Inver's superb crafting here sounds like any one of those celebrated artists in any sort of copycat way, NO, I think it is more like slivers of his sound have faint traces, echoes, ghosts of those artists in terms artistic temperament. AND all those aforementioned artists (to me) while sounding aloofly exuberant and hopeful at times create art that often times has deep wells of sadness underneath. The kind of realization that the deeper that well is, the higher the highs are. Maybe that is why I am so attracted to melancholia in art, in songs.
"So you are the famous white light
You'd have to see to believe
The warm glow of home
That steals you like sleep
Wraps you up in wool
Bounces you on its knee
No concept of time
In a cradle rocking"
You'd have to see to believe
The warm glow of home
That steals you like sleep
Wraps you up in wool
Bounces you on its knee
No concept of time
In a cradle rocking"
I am loving (fucking loving) Inver's vocal countenance, that in concert with his lyrical poetry can give you both thoughtful embraces and potent stomach punches. Those emotional waves of sound and lyrics, of jammy music that bolsters Inver's emotional bloodletting even sans the lyrics run deep.
"I'm like a child
In need of smotheringDumb and wide-eyed
Come mollycoddle me
I'm getting bored
Of the same old, same old
I want fireworks
A loss of total control"
Yes, I am happily trustfalling into Route 500's pain, pleasure and everything in between.
LINER NOTES (bracketed):
['Molly Coddle' - the hard-hitting first single from Route 500's highly anticipated sophomore record carries the euphoric energy and liberating feel of a nineties classic with a visceral, modern edge. The track explores the fallout of queer trauma and accepting love in a way that allows healing to begin. It breaks heavy cycles of the past and catches up to life and its joyous chaos.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://soundcloud.com/route-500/a-horizon-awaits
https://route500.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/routefivehundred/
https://linktr.ee/Route500
https://www.facebook.com/routefivehundred
https://www.youtube.com/@routefivehundred
Route 500 is the musical world of Derek Inver - observational lyrics, compelling vocals and dissociative recollections make up their dynamic, lo-fi sound. The Brighton based project pursues rawness over perfection and captures the darker inner workings and depths of the human psyche. The band have drawn comparisons to the likes of Big Thief, The Microphones, Pavement and Red House Painters, earning an ever-expanding following of loyal listeners, almost 4 million streams and sets at Glastonbury and The Great Escape.
Route 500, singer songwriter, Derek Inver, musician, indie rock, art rock, alt rock, introspective songs, somber pop, bedroom, lo-fi, Brighton England, UK, Sophomore album, "Molly Coddle",
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