Blood Child Bursts Restrictive Cultural Mores On the Noisy and Rebellious “Psycho”

BloodChild2_sm — Blood Child, photo courtesy the artists

Blood Child balances raw noise, introspective melody and splintered rhythms on “Psycho,” the lead single from its new EP Shower Me. The EP is apparently about living in a culture where concepts of success are narrow defined and conformity to behaviors and mentalities that channel your efforts into attaining that success are expected. There’s no room for making the types of mistakes everyone, as a living human, makes going through life or for ways of being that are well within the range of acceptable, understandable and, yes, normal, outside the range of social expectations and what might be considered “respectable.” In the band’s native Denmark that might look slightly different than it would in the USA or China but the same sorts of forces that cause psychological and thus social friction by forcing people through social pressure or even laws that benefit mostly a moneyed interest and for certain ways of resisting that coercion to be considered anti-social or “psycho.” This song embraces that resistance to arbitrary social mores and norms by not only using the word “psycho” as a kind of refrain against conformity but in crafting a song that bursts outside strictly conventional notions of structure and melody while emerging as accessible and anthemic. Listen to the song and the rest of the Shower Me EP on Spotify and follow Blood Child on Facebook.