Although many bands are increasingly turning their attention to political matters and engaging in sonic social commentary, using their platform to advocate, well, anything and everything that they believe in, Cable Street Riot instead looks to a less specific yet more relatable feeling for their latest single.
“Against The Waves” captures, both lyrically and sonically, the feeling of exhaustion spreading across the world’s population. It doesn’t take sides, it doesn’t point to anything specific, but in its sonic grasp that general malaise, the tiredness we feel from the constant pressure of…well, everything…the cost of living, the darkness gathering around the edges of our lives, the rot setting in at the heart of society, political avarice, the stupidity of the population, an abandonment of empathy and the rise of hate, … is palpable. It’s the sound of a fist in the air for those who don’t have the energy anymore to even raise their fist in the air.
Sonically, it plays with dense swathes of electronica, caustic waves of synth sounds and growling bass lines, pummelling beats and walls of abrasive noise, but creates some fantastic dynamics by occasionally collapsing these solid sounds into something less tangible, not quite ambient but dark and drifting and delicious.
“Against The Waves” is not a protest song, but if it were, it would be a protest against feelings of fatigue, isolation, inadequacy, and frustration; the weight of the world on our collective shoulders; and the pressure of modern life that has descended on us.
An anthem for the silent majority!
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