Frogooo Imagines a More Vibrant, Gentler World of the Future When the Current Order of Cruelty Through Austerity Crumbles on “Weak Sounds Are Hard to Hear When You Fear to Be Hurt”

On its single “Weak Sounds Are Hard to Hear When You Fear to Be Hurt” Frogooo addresses the way most of us have been conditioned to display a bravado and false strength in the face of our struggles and adversity. It’s a shield we put up between each other and a pretext for not acting in the best interests of our communities when conventional wisdom suggests we must pursue what we perceive to be our own best interests at the expense of others if need be. It’s a pathology that runs throughout Western history and culture but also manifests in cultures worldwide to varying degrees. That need for displaying strength and stoicism when sensitivity and and gentleness are a better approach and yield better results. That compassion and vulnerability are seen as deficits in a “practical” world is laughable, really, when we know better through practice and experience. Often if we’re patient and willing to be open to more than we’ve been conditioned to be and to take people and situations on their own terms rather than an imposed understanding we can expand what we know about ourselves. Musically, fans of Young Marble Giants, Malaria! and the Raincoats will appreciate the delicate yet urgent rhythms and intuitive dynamics that put the mind into an alternative headspace that reinforces the song’s message of people being in solidarity with those less fortunate or more vulnerable in the late capitalist end game before the next stage of human social evolution sets in and we can weather the inevitable crises ahead with humanity rather than adherence to “efficiency” and the dictates of the soon to be deposed masters of the mechanized economic order who demand austerity for the many so that the few can live not in real luxury that could be for everyone but a diminished form of it in the context of the dystopian world we’ve fallen into. The song says we all deserve better and suggests we can get there with these small gestures that taken as a whole are stronger than what currently seems monolithic like the vine that breaks concrete. Listen to “Weak Sounds Are Hard To Hear When You Fear To Be Hurt” on Spotify.