The end is nigh! Literally, in the sense that this is the final single and final track to be released from Elea Calvet’s Spurious Forms and poetically, too, because of the meaning of the song title. If a memento mori is an object kept as a reminder of our own fragile and fleeting mortality, then the creeping, spine-tingling blues and the gothic fading of the light vibes with which she surrounds herself here are both perfect for the subject matter and equally apposite as the album’s final sonic statement.
As she whispers her thoughts at us, as the bell tolls through the song, the chords chop like the executioner’s axe, and mournful guitar and piano motifs flit through, this certainly feels like the end. Of something.
Feeling like a dirge from a Bertolt Brecht play, there is undoubtedly something of the Kurt Weill theatre score going on, something of the dark underbelly of life coming through in the music, something of the “we are all in the gutter…” mentality at work, and because we know Elea Calvet well enough at this point, something of the broken romance, the love-lorn and lost.
Yes, the end is nigh. But only for now.
And remember those powerful words that Brecht himself wrote, “Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.” It might not be too relevant to this song, but it is certainly something to think about.
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