Big Steps. Big Sound! As the latest one from the London duo, Zaramutas comes crashing in, for a few seconds it feels quite disorientating, a sonic attack on the senses perhaps, but quickly you pick out the spiralling riff, the muscle-bound melodies, the gratuitous groove, and it starts making sense.
What I love most as I start to get lost in the music, which doesn’t take long, is that the vocals never try to compete with the sounds squalling and crashing around them, never try to get above it, but rather stand in the eye of the sonic storm and deliver the words in a reserved and understated way. Very cool.
But as big as the song is, and it is…very…it is clever too. Advocating ideas of unity, of like-minded people standing as one, of taking the collective music being made and turning it into a weapon of protest, “Big Steps” is the perfect song for the moment. One that is less about one agenda or idea, but just a reminder that if we work as one, stand tall, have each other’s backs, the dark waves of authoritarianism and division sweeping across the world will find themselves checked, turned, perhaps even defeated.
If their previous single, “Watermelon,” was about empathy with the victims of oppression, “Big Steps” is about turning that empathy and unity into a force to be reckoned with.
Many people seem to have forgotten the power and potential of the protest song…The Zaramutus certainly haven’t!
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