I love the idea of liminal spaces. Everything from music made on those fringes to the idea of actual places that seem to exist just beyond our own, or meet subliminally in two worlds at once, of hauntological feelings that evoke the idea of otherness, of other worlds, of lives lived somehow out of sight but in full view of those who know how and where to look. (If you find yourself intrigued by the same and haven’t seen Backrooms, do so immediately.)
These are all ideas referenced to some degree in this new one from Pray Silence and then taken to even more distant metaphysical destinations and impossible conclusions. Certainly a song that, for once, lives up to the tag of being out of this world.
As the narrative develops – a story of complex relationships in complex worlds, a place where science fiction and science fact, the imagination and quantum physics all merge – the music runs from gentle, liquid bass-driven lowlands to intense, sub-metal, post-hardcore heights, wandering through visceral pop infectiousness and almost proggy diversity as it goes.
It is a song built from where the breaking waters of recognisable genres lap at the shores of more ‘out there’ sonic creativity, a self-referential act, as such borderland soundscaping carries a human story, also expressing the same extreme edges on the Venn Diagram of order.
While ‘Liminalland’ is a cool song with a clever story, sonically creative and lyrically intriguing, read between the lines, and you will also find many, perhaps unanswerable, questions. Questions about what happens beyond our view, out of earshot, beyond our scientific understanding of time, dimensions and the known universe. Where does one thing end and another begin, and what happens in those shared yet shrouded spaces?
Art should make you think, but ‘Liminalland,’ if you explore its themes deep enough, might even change the way you perceive the world around you. You wouldn’t get that from your three-minute pop songs, wouldya?
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