Folks Rock Duo Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz Launch Thought-Upsetting “Solutions Belie”
Folks Rock Duo Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz proceed their acutely aware musical evolution with the haunting and thought-provoking new album “Solutions Belie”, out now on digital platforms. That is the Bay Space prolific duo’s eighth full-length album. They’ve additionally launched 4 EP’s and 5 singles, and that’s not together with solo materials. “Solutions Belie” finds them as soon as once more mining for fact and that means whereas talking fact to energy by means of poetic disobedience and seasoned track craftsmanship.
Eric Anders explains the underlying that means and literary inspiration behind the mysterious title: “The title monitor is about how the solutions we’ve needed to life’s large questions typically disguise/reveal our deepest uncertainties and fears. In his poem, “The Second Coming,” Yeats writes “The most effective lack all conviction, whereas the worst / Are filled with passionate depth.” The “solutions” that the worst maintain so tight to not solely belie their worry and insecurity; they’re additionally the muse for his or her passionately intense violence towards those that are in any other case.”
Eric describes the primary track on the album, “Gradual Movin’ Nightmare” as “a dirge for American democracy.” The second track, “Pressure of Outdated” begins out “Heard a few warfare to come back/Heard it is perhaps in contrast to wars of previous/Heard it received’t be civil/Heard it is perhaps sizzling or chilly.” The third track is a reimagining and updating of Lincoln’s Gettysburg tackle: “Lengthy Ol’ Civil Conflict.”
However not all of the songs on this highly effective folks rock album are political. Some are philosophical (the title monitor, “Solutions Belie”) whereas the opposite three are sentimental. With the track “The Hardest Lesson,” Eric returns to what was a standard theme for him when he wrote the lyrics for his first three albums: the repetition of dysfunctional relationships. After all, this was a theme earlier than he met and married his spouse in 2005.
“Eyes, A Baby, Bedside” is Eric’s ode to his maternal grandfather who was a Harley-riding CHiP who developed MS and spent the eighteen years Eric knew his grandfather in a hospital mattress in his grandparents’ lounge–as a result of healthcare sucks within the U.S. even for individuals who commit themselves to civil service for many years.
The ultimate track on the album, “I Hope Time Will Be Form,” is an ode to Eric’s three youngsters and an expression of the common worry of rising previous. It is usually an expression of his worry that the world goes to worsen for his youngsters with local weather change and the rightward drift of U.S. and world politics.
This new folks rock launch was produced by Mike Butler.
Pay attention or buy “Solutions Belie” on Bandcamp.
Stream on Spotify.