Music Review for Coketown Potboilers – A Little Closer
This is the kind of track where you can just tell that so much thought and time has been put into the making of the music. The production has given it this powerful crisp sound, throughout every different instrument, voice, and effect – and yet the music still maintains it’s dreamlike ambiance at just the right moments. The longer you listen; the more you hear, and just about every element is unexpected – nothing seems clichéd or copied.
The music conjures up a lot of different images and ideas as you listen, which is a wonderful effect, and furthermore – it means that this track alone could be used as the backdrop to any number of short films or videos or movie scenes. Perhaps even to make something important sink in a little deeper. It sort of has the effect of making you forget what you were doing, whether you want to or not – that instant escapism from reality. A really great thing to achieve, particularly if you want your music to reach out to any number of different audiences; the crystal clear potential for collaboration is written all over this.
There’s nothing particularly catchy about the song writing, but in many cases that is a wonderful thing to notice – the music is artistic and enticing and inspiring. It affects you as you listen, and not in the way that a repetitive pop song or melodic ear-worm might. You make stories up in your mind as you listen. It’s a wonderful moment as it is, letting you drift off into your own imagination, but there is also so much room for more – new dimensions, new mediums. The fusing of art forms is aching to occur, and I’m sure there’s a lot more of this to come from these guys – hopefully a lot of collaborations will come to light in the near future, bringing these ideas and images to life.
By Rebecca Cullen
