Her fourth album, SINNER GET READY, takes that trauma and places it within the religious history and generally austere vibe of rural Pennsylvania, where Hayter lived until recently. Themes of violence against women, the body, and revenge have run through each of her projects, taking the form of all kinds of sounds from operatic splendour to abrasive noise – as close to corporeal as it's possible for music to get – in an effort to articulate trauma ("lingua ignota" Latin for “unknown language”). Lingua Ignota's Kristin Hayter has long been rummaging through the landfill of despair. Not so with this “One Step Closer” reanimation, which takes a song that genuinely seems to express something about how we experience our relentlessly stressful times, and makes it sound like the way we experience them like the dark heart of the algorithm. So much of the culture that surrounds us centres on remaking or rebooting for its own sake, often producing results on the spectrum between “underwhelming” and “actually brain-numbing”. Dylan Brady and Laura Les continued their run of fascinating and irresistible post-everything hijinks into this year, and while Brady’s new version of Rebecca Black’s “Friday” featuring Dorian Electra, Big Freedia and 3OH!3 was almost the best thing the gecs-verse produced this year, this new take on “One Step Closer” has it beat in terms of sheer mayhem. However, it does lead to an unambiguous D major resolution that is certainly the cheeriest moment, leading us to believe that the lyrical resolution "The best you can is good enough" isn't entirely ironic.There couldn’t have been a more fitting anthem for 2021 than a rework of Linkin Park’s furious declaration of hopelessness “One Step Closer”, by popular culture’s premier chaos goblins 100 gecs.
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The effect of the whole tone scale, which eschews the piffling smaller intervals of our majors and minors by leaping a full tone each step, is of hope – but perhaps forced hope. But the second time, "If you try the best you can", the music leaps up a semitone to a B flat whole tone scale. A rising bassline takes us through the murk of an A minor scale as Thom sings "You can try the best you can" suggesting that the he is doomed to failure. Same title but a little less full of the wonders of life, this song uses a similar motif in the chorus. Each time it catches me, seeming to go up and up for longer than I expect. The music then pushes on past this leap of faith through C#, D and E flat before collapsing back into A flat. Signalled each time by "you can win" we move from A flat minor up through B flat minor but then comes the extra push catching us short by rising an extra semitone (within A flat minor) to C major. Even if that line ("When in the midst of sorrow") is not yet at the point of optimism the music is carrying it through. In the verses, feeling weightless through the bass dropping out for the first half, each line is followed by a sunburst of piano and synthesised strings. This hugely successful gospel foray into slick R&B-pop (courtesy of über-producers Jam and Lewis) promises: "As long as you keep your head to the sky/You can win," and makes you believe it. Of course, it's not always quite that simple, so let's look at more examples: Case study 2: Sounds of Blackness – Optimistic The rise of the chord sequence It might seem rather obvious to suggest that a rising chord sequence or melody is going to be more optimistic, but that doesn't mean it's not true.
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Only God knew that Brian Wilson was channelling UK kids' TV from the future to write his best songs. Or perhaps Goldfrapp got it from the masters of wordless interludes. Case study 1b: Beach Boys – God Only Knows
Although the genius who composed this had already cemented its glassy-eyed optimistic credentials with the triumphant rise through the first five chords of C major (the happiest of all keys) in the intro. Case study 1a: Jim'll Fix It ThemeĪlmost certainly where the idea came from. An unhinged falling then rising theremin leads us through a bouncy major-key passage that sighs each time into a more wistful minor chord before those Jim'll Fix It "Ba Ba Ba"s rise back up to the euphoric major passage. However, it's the wordless passage when the drums kick in at 1:20 that interests us here. With implications of cult brainwashing in the lyrics, Happiness isn't as simple as the title might suggest.
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