I welcome you personally to my week's favourite rock emperors, from lip-smacking music courtesy of Osiris Lights, Lisa Humber & Ivory Lake. Check out the songs here:
Osiris Lights-Thirty Three
I heard your car needed an explosion for a spark plug. Welcome to Osiris Lights, your burning embers of a firework show that claimed the prime spot in your mind. Melodic vocals and dark, effervescent instrumental parts lace this band who loves keeping the best part a surprise. You like listening to this too, the band from Down Under likes to take it slow. The way the story builds is Hitchcock like, keeping the energy swept up under the rug, till the lump is too obvious to notice. When the riff you heard all this time changes impact, you feel like scampering with your tail between your legs. This is opening weekend, box office gold. Grudging explosion, courtesy Osiris Lights:
Lisa Humber-It’s Me, It’s You
Well, no one could have said it better. Lisa Humber synchronises the failure and beginning of relationships with just her song title. It is a high tempo rock number, all spotlights on her incredible, emotive voice. There is a synth blanket that covers the background, while attention is on the impact of her lyrics. It is a ballet between the quick percussion and Lisa Humber truly channelling her energy for each part with masterful modulation. The acoustic break is a treat, creating a layered approach to the fractures we slowly miss out on. It is a vocal performance that is synced perfectly to the resonant vibrations of a past relationship. This is her latest single, and this one is for us:
Ivory Lake-Reckless Enough to Be Free
Perhaps we must dive back into a state of introverted consideration. Ivory Lake comes back with Josh Watts’ brilliant imagination and even sharper writing. It is the soul of the music, the temptation in creating such rich imagery in the music, that changes the tempo. Like life’s most important moments, it is a welcome change, which he highlights with the soothing voice of an angel. From the piano and acoustic instrumentality, he brings the bleakest sentencing of life to our eyes, from the internet to the horrid imagination we have subject ourselves to. Freedom isn’t the gift everyone dreamt it to be. Ivory Lake warns us of what we should have paid attention to, with a beautiful, memorable song:
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