"Escapism" disturbs the idle mind and nurtures movement beyond fabricated resistance.
A fun, heartfelt, and new album by MESSAGES, the musical kinship between Jesse Mortensen and Dustin Hoag, that pummels the soul and propels the spirit.
Preserving the spirited and abstract nature of playful kinships, Escapism, by MESSAGES can be consumed on a continuous loop of audio and imaginary surrealism, as it provides its own escape velocity of melodic and instrumental mojo to sway the whimsical, taunt the tantalizing, and to lubricate the obdurate, deconstructing artificial barriers to ascension in both observable and metaphysical realms of existence.
The album is a sonic and emotional production of lively masculinity at play, timeless and uplifting through loss, healing, and growth, buoyant with tranquil and hypnotic soundscapes and vivid flickers of traditional musical brilliance, tectonically disturbing the mind while loosening the physical body in both the realm of now and realms of serenity.
Playful by brute nature, attacking the senses on all fronts, keeping instincts sharp by invoking asymmetric assaults on every calculated approach, MESSAGES transports the listener to a state of elevation, overlooking the senseless chaos and meanness while forever warring off the desire to return to it.
Some things cannot be unseen.
Every track on the album can be looped to enhance a journey of movement in the body or spirit, equally effective in either, allowing an endless energy supply of bliss to inherit the cosmos but arranged and produced to move masses through bouts of celebratory madness in vibrant arrays of anthemic marches and sound effects to jump, jive, and whale down the streets of vulnerability, with a sliver of indifference to grease the piss-stained cobblestone streets that reflect dancing skeletons of those gone before us.
Perhaps an album’s best feature is its ability to create excitement in human minds; Escapism creates a universe within the infinite realm of imagination.
Describing the album would be sheer madness; experiencing the album in dark and intentional solitude is to embrace the journey of an abandoned amusement park ride, solo, with an immersion of optical illusions of projected monsters and demons sneering the occupant. The album doesn’t embrace mood; it creates a galaxy of vibrance, through mesmerizing sound progression and peak frequencies of sensationalism.
Escapism is modern humanity at play zoomed out through a lens of hypocrisy with sparkling bursts of audio brilliance that hilariously illuminates the wizard behind the curtain, while spurring the inner dervish to swing and dance in the alleys of mayhem and chaos, dodging monotony and jumping squares along the seventh ward of excitement. Perhaps an album’s best feature is its ability to create excitement in human minds; Escapism creates a universe within the infinite realm of imagination.
Wickedly infectious, Escapism overflows with gratitude as it ignites fireworks in the soul and movement in the body, through small packets of kindness and acceptance, giving depth to expression and vitality to joy.
Fostering organic relations with sound as energy, Escapism is a greenhouse of whimsical madness, blocking destructive outside elements of poisonous attachment and debilitating noise from inside growth. Every journey into the doldrums of winter, the door to the greenhouse is opened, a new favorite array of life, through gratitude, emerges from the darkness of loss and suffering. Every song a ray of light in a field of nuclear reactors, sampling and creating clever scapes and cutting insights.
The art of fruitful youth and adapted nourishing of its own existence, sustaining eternal life through the power of modern music and experimental sound, Escapism cleverly illuminates conduits of bass and drum mastery (the moving power of rhythm), Wurlitzer magic, horns and gritty sounds of serenity and excitement that foster exploration of creative self, celebrating a state of existence without regard to resistance.
Escapism is galactic kaleidoscope of nostalgic and cathartic images of life, through emeralded theaters of battles with self and society, playing its own red queen of progress through the illusion of time.
The album embraces the cerebral and spiritual occupants on their journey and encourages a world of creativity and celebration of kinship, simply through unapologetic and exuberant existence.
Stringer
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Escapism due out January 1, 2024. Ol’ Blue Hat Records.