Waterlog: Touchscreen
Single – Out Now
Digital
In a time when digital saturation has turn out to be an unavoidable actuality, Waterlog’s newest single Touchscreen gives a wry, rollicking reflection on our collective tech habit. The artistic brainchild of Dom Shaw (producer, multi-instrumentalist, and Grammy-nominated engineer for the likes of Peter Gabriel, Squid, and Saya Grey), Waterlog emerges as a totally realised musical challenge of vibrant guitar led musicality and a radiant sense of experimentation.
Touchscreen, the title observe from Waterlog’s forthcoming EP, is a buoyant indie-rock observe, carried ahead by a radiant post-punk vibrancy. Bursting with frenetic rhythms from drummer Cam Steele, jagged guitar tones and grounded by the warming bass, the observe dances via its first verse with quirky layers of vocals which carry biting, tongue-in-cheek humour when coupled with the on the nostril lyricism.
The observe then takes an surprising shift into the extra straight indie sound of the refrain earlier than lulling right into a downtempo, melancholic, whimsical center eight. These twists and turns – tempo adjustments, tight shifts in guitar tones and refined key adjustments – proceed all through the observe, making for a novel and strikingly artistic sonic expertise.
Lyrically, ‘Touchscreen’ balances sharp humor with biting social commentary, encapsulating a duet between an ever-optimistic smartphone and its more and more disillusioned person.
Dom himself describes it as “a farcical center finger to the expertise that had such an irreversible impact on me rising up. Oddly sufficient, the music feels extra related now than after I wrote it.”
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All phrases by Simon Lucas-Hughes. Extra writing by Simon Lucas-Hughes may be discovered at his creator’s archive.
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