The band have also been forced to drop from this year’s ‘ProgPower USA’ festival.
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The band have also been forced to drop from this year’s ‘ProgPower USA’ festival.
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The mind is not a ghost riding inside the body, but a movement of the whole being, like a wave that cannot be separated from the sea. To be fully alive is to stop treating thought and flesh as adversaries and to feel them as one unfolding process. In that recognition, the body ceases to be merely a personal vessel; it becomes part of the great human current, joined to every hand, every breath, every sorrow, every joy. What we call self is not sealed off, but woven continuously into the living fabric of humankind.
Madeline Goldstein’s lovely new track One Star One Body arrives with the cool blaze of a private revelation beamed through a busted public world. As the final single before her new album Speaking To The Body drops on April 10th, it carries a sense of gathering consequence, as though Goldstein has been building a small altar out of dread, desire, discipline, and steel-lit beauty, then finally decided to set the whole thing ablaze. The song reaches toward the spiritual without going soft in the knees about it. It is tense, elegant, and full of pressure.
Those precise melodic turns and clear, glassy textures bring to mind Berlin, Eurythmics, and Til Tuesday, though Goldstein handles those touchstones like tools rather than trophies. The effect is theatrical, sleek, and a little severe, with a living-room intimacy pulled through chrome and voltage. There is anxiety in it, modern and intimate, bound up in the blur between the digital self and the physical one, in the daily business of watching the world deform people while trying to keep your own face from cracking in the mirror.
That emotional and political current runs straight through her lyrics. “This song is a protest song in a sense, trying to protest against the feelings of being paralyzed in the face of the inhumanities we visualize everyday,” says Goldstein. “It’s about fighting to become human again before we’ve lost our world. Our one star is our planet, our sun, our universe. And we have one body, our own with which we choose either to unite with the human body or to isolate.” That statement lifts the track beyond style and places it squarely in the realm of spiritual emergency.
The video, directed by Molly Dario and shot by Antonio Zapiain Luna, places Goldstein in a realm that feels suspended between ritual, simulation, and pop martyrdom. She appears transformed, heightened, almost transmitted from somewhere just beyond ordinary flesh, with a visual presence that calls to mind Enya meets early-90s Madonna by way of some celestial public-access fever dream. Every frame has a clean, stylized force to it. Goldstein moves through these synthetic environments like someone searching for communion in a world built from projection, code, memory, and want.
“I wanted to make a video where the universe it lived in was synthetic and created from nothingness,” says Goldstein. “It seemed the most fitting to represent the worlds we create for ourselves now online, both a source of creative freedom and of imprisonment and torture. Molly Dario is an amazing VFX artist who creates limitless retro-futuristic landscapes. This was our creative homecoming, as we both worked together in the infancy of our projects, and now have grown our distinct creative voices.”
One Star One Body feels like a transmission from somebody trying to pull spirit back through the machine before the machine swallows the signal whole.
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As founding member and principal songwriter of The Pineapple Thief, Bruce Soord has spent the last decade steadily refining a voice that balances emotional directness with musical restraint. Set for release on May 15th, Ghosts In The Park, his latest solo album, is his most personal and unguarded work to date: a record shaped by loss, memory, and the quiet spaces that reveal themselves when life continues to move while everything else appears to stop. Bruce has shared the first single from the album, titled ‘Pillars’ alongside a new video produced by George Laycock.
Excessive, damaging introspection, I guess is the theme of the song. I remember the day in my life when I was liberated from my god-fearing introspection. Only then could I see the damage it had done to me and was still doing to the people around me. The song is about that: the damage I have witnessed. It’s framed around religion and penance, but it’s not anti-religion, it’s about balance. Oh and the line about pillars. It’s a bit of a playful reference to Saint Simeon Stylites, a Christian ascetic from around 400 AD. Legend has it he perched on top of a pillar for 37 years, taking himself away from the world in order to dedicate his life entirely to prayer, fasting, and repentance. I thought it was quite apt.
I’ve been working with George Laycock from Blacktide Productions for years now, it’s incredible what he can do with his imagination and camera. – Bruce Soord
Written over a two-year period while Soord was touring extensively with The Pineapple Thief, the album emerged in hotel rooms, unfamiliar cities, and moments of enforced solitude. Against this backdrop, Soord was navigating the drawn-out decline and eventual death of his father, alongside the continued progression of his mother’s Alzheimer’s. These experiences form the emotional spine of Ghosts In The Park – grief in motion, memory surfacing unpredictably, and the quiet determination to keep moving forward.
Bruce Soord – Ghosts In The Park
https://brucesoord.lnk.to/Ghosts_In_The_Park
Concepcion [01:25]
Pillars [03:10]
Meet Me On The Downs [03:05]
Kept Me Thinking [06:34]
Day Of Wrath [04:21]
Our Predicament [03:43]
Stared Down [04:33]
You Made A Promise [02:56]
Ghosts In The Park [12:52]
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Sinclair Noire comes stomping out of Austin with their latest video for Blackshore like they’ve been locked in a back room with a busted television, a stack of J.G. Ballard paperbacks, and a police scanner that won’t shut up. Somewhere in that splendid civic sickness, they’ve found a beat fit for the age. This is darkwave with a dirty mirror held up to the digital state, gothic rock with nightclub nerve, industrial percussion with enough blunt-force momentum to make your ribs feel like they’ve joined the argument. Ethan Stafford leads the charge with the kind of presence that suggests a man who has seen the wires behind the walls and come back with a grin that is equal parts warning and dare.
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