The Window (Overlooking the Concrete Oasis
‘Concrete Flower’ tells the story of a place you’ve never been before. It tells the story of this place and portrays the people who live there. Step through the door into the world of the ‘Concrete Flower’.
The Window (Overlooking the Concrete Oasis) is the entry point. Have you ever met anyone who, despite a short stature, is bold and emphatic? The kind of person who revels in the absurd, is a student to music and film, and generally noisy?
The Window captures the former aspect to the aforementioned personality types. One of art music aesthetic and drawing from that which we view as culturally informative in our zeitgeist. Yet, as do all experiences, only time is needed before the rambunctious nature is suddenly, and on occasion jarringly, revealed; Overlooking the Concrete Oasis.
Queen B
Patience is a virtue. Over the next 18 and a half minutes, an ode plays to the most virtuous of individuals. Scholarly in a sense of both enlightened intelligence and the socio-political benefit of theology, Queen B dedicates it opening, ‘The Workers’, to this philosophy.
Bolstering the musicality of patience, The Drones, in lieu of wasting no time, takes all the time it requires to build and grow. Become enveloped as the world around you slowly beams with greater aural colour. Patience is the virtue, and patience is what allows a song to grow to its optimal form. Lose yourself in the layers.
Only to be dramatically snapped back by The Queen, a dramatic shift intentioned at the other facility of our studious individual. Aptitude of body alongside mind. But, as are most people, The Wasp closed our experience with a sentiment to change it up and simply have fun.
Learn This!
Study is rigorous. Study is beneficial. Study is challenging. Study is a verb. Study is a noun. Study is the subject of this track. One which decrees a simple task; Learn This!
B/C
B/C [Pronounced: biː ˈəʊvə siː] embodies that which we all desire most; community. A sense of belonging, liveliness and an enjoyment which is communal. We all have a love for music, so share your love so others may feel it too.
Downtempo PDM
We’ve all met a certain kind of someone. The type who jovially tell you about how depressed they are, a thinly veiled joke at the expensive of any minor inconvenience. The type to listen to media too loudly and invade your privacy with noise pollution. The type described in Prelude in D Minor.
DPM or: Progressive Dance Music, is the cutting-edge combination of progressive rock with something discernibly groovy. Further building on our subject, DPM is fun, light-hearted, scatter brained, and off kilter in all the ways you know and love. A way which ebbs and flows through absurdity.
The culmination of this absurdity is the final movement: Enter the Wardrobe. The moment in this story where out subject arrives inebriated. So inebriated in fact, they believe they in the works of C. S. Lewis, and decide to look for Narnia.
Underwater
Eponymous in nature, a track which speaks to the most intimate of places to find yourself; Underwater. Soothing and transcendental, it speaks to various ways we can experience intimacy. Be it isolated underwater or sharing the experience with us. Regardless, the commonality, the soothing sensation.
(A Time) With No Tense
And so, the story comes to an end. A Time brings about a close which builds upon the album which preceded it. It has the same layering to its aural language, albeit in a less cacophonous manner, and instead opts for one which is more soothing and intimate.
Following the brief Reprise, With No Tense tells a more discordant tale. A tale of someone lost. A lack of clarity clouds their essence, leaving a state where things only make sense theoretically. Though, through all the adversity, it still ends on a high note.
Fin.
