The title track of SloNewsLife’s September 13, 2025 EP ansible has a fragile and lo-fi quality that sounds refreshing in an era of excessive production and when you’re not sure if you’re hearing something made by a human. The spare guitar work and vulnerable vocals in the beginning of the song gives way around the one minute fifteen mark to the sound of an organ like the song is conceptually entering a phase of deep reverie. The lyrics recall a memory of childhood that comes back to haunt you later in life. The line “you swore to me we were all going to die” followed by a bit about how in “three decades it turns out you were right, always right” suggests the loss of a loved family member who often offered sage observations that don’t hit the right way immediately. The title of the song possibly references a communication device created by Ursula K. Le Guin for some of her science fiction novels. The device allows for instantaneous communication across intergalactic distances. It seems for this song and possible as a theme of the EP the yearning for the ability to connect across a different type of distance in time and past barriers of interpersonal communication and as a poetic device it makes the song carry a little more weight. Fans of Owen Ashworth and his various projects will find a lot of resonance with what SloNewsLife has to offer. Listen to “Ansible” the song and the EP on Spotify.
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