At times, we will have a near-immediate attraction to a song as we hear for a first time, followed by a waning interest as the song progresses. Some songs are meant to be two minutes or less. Think of the album “Abbey Road,” where the Beatles fit a number of such songs together. “Golden Slumbers” slides into “Carry That Weight,” which almost seamlessly becomes “The End.” The longest of the three is 2:05, but together they are a timeless medley.
“Clouds” was NOT meant to be a short song. The single from Psychic Markers is attractive from the start, then progressively more powerful upon hitting the 1:50 mark. At that time, the sonic guitar enters to add another layer to the high energy deliver. The guitar makes the subtle female backing vocals more noticeable. It also fits well with the other contributions to the skillfully orchestrated instrumental bridge that begins three minutes into “Clouds.”
Psychic Markers is a London-based band. The members are Steven Dove (vocals), Leon Dufficy (guitar), Alannah Ashworth (keys, backing vocals), Lewis Baker (drums), and Luke Jarvis (bass). “Clouds” is a single from an upcoming self-titled album, which is scheduled for release on May 29 via Bella Union. The band reflects upon the single at the Bella Union website:
“The pressures of society don’t begin in adulthood, they start as soon as you’re able to communicate and essentially from the moment you can walk, talk and shit by yourself. These initial milestones are the foundations of responsibility and invariably the moment the pressure mounts. Questions surrounding your future begin immediately, ‘What do you want to be when you get older?’, for example. This emphasis on the future only grows in tandem with the pressures of adulthood and my opinion is to live more in the present and to alleviate some of this pressure, especially in the young. Alan Watts describes it as the point in the middle of an hourglass, we have these huge spaces containing the past and the present but only one grain of sand for the present. This obviously makes it a particularly difficult place to exist.”
“These points are echoed in Clouds, written from the perspective of a child who I feel should be encouraged to let the imagination run wild, look up to the clouds, the stars and be free.”
“Clouds” by Psychic Markers
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