Yspai Bit imbues its song “Emptiness” with a yearning for a life with more vitality and meaning. Musically it’s a fusion of melancholic post-punk and synth pop in a style that resonates with later period Body of Light and The Blue Nile. The subtle flourishes that carry the song have an almost orchestral feel with the guitar dropping in lightly yet elegantly and both electronic drums and synths working in tandem with the rhythm of the lyrics. The activity of the city nightlife outside the narrator’s windows is depicted as chaotic yet alluring, seemingly perilous but offering a fulfillment to the yearning we hear in the song that itself the narrator knows is a narrative intended to keep him from violating some unwritten rule and transgressing past an outmoded system of morals and repressive traditional culture that presents itself as the only meaningful set of values and ethos. We hear in the song the narrator talking himself into crossing that line because in an unspoken way he knows what he’s been told is just manufactured tales and perspectives intended to keep people in their place. It’s not obviously a subversive song but sometimes subversion looks and sounds like something that is a conversation with self dissolving arbitrary and internalized notions of how the world and the self need to be. Listen to “Emptiness” on Spotify and follow Yspai Bit from Tatarstan, Russia at the links below. Lyrics in English provided below the links.
“Emptiness” lyrics in English
Simply because a friend has gone away.
I don’t want to live in the present moment,
Exchanging life for the emptiness of fleeting details.
The city outside the window roars with chaos,
Drenched in the vivid glow of its lights.
Chorus
Hands are yearning to break the glass,
This void has trapped me; it won’t pass.
To dive in sin, the city’s night,
And shed the shell that feels so trite.
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