A gripping, escalating rock fervency takes maintain on “I Preserve On Not Dying,” a brand new collaborative observe from the initiatives FHMY and AQL. A textured, fuzzy shoegaze sound emanates all through, melding with philosophical inspirations like Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and Albert Camus to end in a heady entrancement. A haunting, concluding spoken-word lushness additionally intrigues, using a pattern from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The result’s an intoxicating rock success from FHMY and AQL, the previous of which is described as “the primary Egyptian shoegaze venture in Egypt and North Africa.”
Kafka’s idea of metamorphosis is a major affect, surrounding the position of a tormented artist pressured to bear witness to societal violence as a way to produce artwork. A selected Tarkovsky fairly can also be referenced, reinforcing this idea: “Some kind of stress should exist; the artist exists as a result of the world will not be excellent.”
A hovering but solemn guitar tone builds alongside an introspective vocal supply, regularly increasing into percussive pit-pattering and extra guitar layers previous the two-minute flip. The second half wholly satiates with its uptick in distorted guitar swells, fading out thereafter into the eerily enveloping Neon Genesis Evangelion pattern. “I Preserve On Not Dying” is a totally resonating standout from FHMY and AQL.
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This and different tracks featured this month could be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Rising Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We found this launch through MusoSoup, as a part of the artist’s promotional marketing campaign.
