Shows Metro Chicago. If a Fellini film, a Bosch painting, and a Rorschach drawing had a collective sound, it would be Typhoons new release. The 1. 4 track record Offerings is a musical and lyrical excursion into surreal imagery, eerie soundscapes, and an emotionally jarring narrative. The 7. 0 minute album for Roll Call Records, which is the Portland, Oregon indie rock bands fourth studio album, centers on a fictional man who is losing his memory, and in turn, his sense of self. Ive always been preoccupied with memory, losing memory, and trying to recapture memory. I wanted to explore the questions What does a person become if they dont know where they came from What is the essential quality of the person if you strip away all memory explains singersongwriter Kyle Morton. Motivated in part by his own preoccupation with losing it, Morton also found a treasure trove of inspiration through various books, art, and film he was immersed in during the writing of this record. I was watching a lot of David Lynch, and thought a lot about the Christopher Nolan movie, Memento, and Fellinis 8. And there were a lot of books on my nightstand that played into this. It made it a much darker album for sure, he says. Offerings is divided into four movements Floodplains, Flood, Reckoning, and Afterparty to represent the mental phases the main character goes through where he first realizes that something is wrong, then struggles through the chaos of his situation, and finally moves into acceptance before succumbing to his dreadful fate. I wanted this record to be a journey, like Dantes Inferno. It kicks off with Wake, where the character wakes up and hes shitting the bed and doesnt know whats going on. I was going for a specific feel that Samuel Beckett does so well, says Morton, who was reading Becketts Three Novels, specifically Malloy, while writing the songs lyrics. Beckett would call it a literature of impoverishment where hed strip away as much as he could so he could get a feeling of essence and scarcity thats what I tried to do musically and lyrically here. Mission accomplished. Morton also masterfully makes a parallel with the characters journey to the state of the world today starting with the second track, Rorschach, which looks at the age of information and collapse of meaning. But, by the third song, Empiricist, theres a regression to the womb where the character is back in his bed at home, talking about his range of motion shrinking. This first movement ends with Algernon taken from one of Mortons favorite short stories, Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, where hes constantly awakening and in an interrogation with a womanwho the listener should know is his wife, but he doesnt. Musically, there is a sense of impending doom and chaos throughout the record that mirrors the characters fear and anxiety. The claustrophobic feeling of only having the present moment and this sense of repetition is musically mirrored with this looping that runs though the record with a through line of choral parts that give it a darker, creepier feel, says Morton. To set the right tone for the story, Morton went for a less horns, more guitar approach. We have a little bit of trumpet on this record and a lot of string arrangements. But we really strayed away from the horn arrangements. In his sixth year as a pro ballplayer, Nicky Delmonico made his majorleague debut with the Chicago White Sox tonight, striking out before a sparse crowd. Luke Plunkett. Luke Plunkett is a Contributing Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs. I wanted it to be a darker, more intense rock record, so its very guitar based. Its going back to my rock roots before Typhoon, says Morton. The concept of what the main character in the album is going through is also meant as a way of explaining cultural memory loss. I was also reading historian Timothy Snyder and was inspired by his take on how America is at risk of losing their sense of history. If we havent learned the lessons of our past, historically, we cant recognize when elements come back to haunt us, which is whats happening right now, he adds. How To Install Tub Drain Stopper. One choral part Down in the floodplains waiting on a cure Blessed be the water May the water make us pure was especially inspired by current politics. I had Steve Bannon in mind quite a bit when I was writing these choral parts because Im taking on this world view that I dont agree with, which is that the world needs a bloody struggle to reset bring on the demolishing of order, he says. The characters downward spiral continues through the albums second movement, Flood, while in the third, Reckoning, comes the absolute zero moment where the character is ready and willing to let go of life. Reckoning kicks off with Coverings, which is the first song Morton ever co wrote with a band member Shannon Steele, who also sings on it. Steele lends her vocals to the end of Bergeron, as well. Coverings takes the story into the devils mansion where all the rooms are the same representing this repeated infinite present with no reference. For me, this is Hell. And, at this point, our character has lost his marbles, he explains. At the same time, on the worldly scale, continues Morton, this is the point where we dont have any public trust and theres no cultural memory, theres just chaos. People are becoming identical in this collapse of meaning and you have no reference. If there is any point to this record its that Without reference, you have an interesting concept of infinity, which can be really bad. As the album comes to a close with the acoustic Sleep, the character decides that instead of taking part of the chaos, hed rather sacrifice himself. UNJdxDT5s.jpg' alt='One Piece 1 44 Th Darker My Love' title='One Piece 1 44 Th Darker My Love' />But there is light at the end of this dark, emotional journey. The secret track, Afterparty, is where he finds peace and freedom. Its his homecoming. Hes on the other side of it now and has found his version of Heaven, says Morton. Its this level of intricacy in Typhoons storytelling and musicianship that has helped Typhoon become one of indie rocks most revered bands. Their previous album, White Lighter, hit No. Billboards Heatseekers Album Chart and got Best of The Year nods from NPR and Paste. Typhoon has brought their, at times, 1. 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