“Complacency is the death of creation,” that’s the message at the heart of this debut single from Death Valley Dream Cult. And it is so true. As we move through life, we become increasingly caught up in recurring habits and comfort zones, and nothing inspiring ever comes from those places, does it?
At 23 and 19 respectively, Greta Janssen and Nate Ascending don’t have to concern themselves with such notions, but their debut single, “Death of Creation,” is still a stark warning to us all. Stay creative, keep searching, remain inquisitive, stay hungry!
It’s a warning that comes wrapped in the spark of youth and the outsider vibe of rock music at its most incendiary. Guitars growl, drums pummel out the beat, and industrial textures soak through the sound, but spaciousness is key. That space allows the light to get in, the sonic strands to ring out even truer, gives the barbed and serrated edges room to decimate and devastate, and the song to ebb and flow between languid lulls and sonic crescendos, all effortlessly.
This is rock and roll for the new generation, the mutant offspring of something once recognisable, the same but different, both a continuation of what has gone before and a violent reaction against it. Rock and roll is all about rebellion; this is the way it should be. This is the way it has to be.
It looks like a new form of vibrant, violent, rabble-rousing rock and roll rebellion is back on the menu!
