“I Know” by SMO – A Song Review

     The guitar in “I Know” is the antithesis of shoegaze – the notes are short, clear and clean. Count us among the fans of shoegaze, but the song from SMO is masterfully executed and refreshingly enjoyable.

     “I Know” is a single from the album “Plastic Scenes” of SMO (Sex Machine Octopus), a band based in Montreal, Canada. Three of the members were friends in high school - Laurent Boland (vocals, guitar), Oliver Cohen-Daigle (bass) and Samuel Morissette (drums). The fourth, Georges Gagnon (guitar), joined a few months after the start.

     “I Know” by Sex Machine Octopus

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     The guitar is almost frantic in the “Rolling Thunder” portion of “Hidden Tiger//Rolling Thunder”

Lyrics of “I Know” by Sex Machine Octopus

I know, there’s something beautiful

From all the sadness and tears that you left me

And I know, there must be something wrong

Cause I’m addicted and I can’t help it

Silence

Hauntingly beautiful and better than anything we could say

Sadness, that’s in your lips and eyes

I can’t stand it because it makes me mad

Mad

You don’t know, what you represent to me

Yo’reu passionate and unhealthy

I’ve fallen into your wings

They never fly, they never did no

It may sound like an overwhelming

Sad song about love but I can’t help it

And I know, there must be something wrong

And I know, there must be something wrong

There must be something wrong

There must be something wrong

Today, was an ordinary day

I never felt this way, I never felt so sane

One day we’ll look back, and we will laugh, but

But for now, I’m being eaten alive (x2)

Getting alive (repeating)

I’m getting eaten alive (2x)