The title of Susurrus Station’s “Meshes of the Afterlife” is a nod to Maya Derren’s 1943 short experimental/psychological film Meshes of the Afternoon. While not the proto noir of Deren’s film, the music video for the song involves masked figures reminiscent of a mix of the masks worn by the Brutal Exterminators in Zardoz and Japanese classical theater masks. The song itself has a playful energy rooted in rhythms and textures lending its melodies an otherworldly feel at times as the song explores themes of mortality and struggle and taking a chance on doing something with your time that brings you some joy and psychological freedom from the heaviness of the times we’re living through right now that no one asked for but psychotic greed and power mongers are imposing on us all at great cost to human society, psychology and the rest of the world, often dismissed as incidental to human experience, with it. Susurrus Station leans into the whimsy without losing sight of the reality that makes that more necessary than ever to indulge. While the elements of songwriting and its tools for effecting its unique sound the mood is reminiscent of late 2000s Deerhunter but more utilizing synth and piano more than guitar to achieve a dreamlike quality that draws out one’s capacity to connect with a realm of the imagination and dreams where more seems possible and nurturing rather than limiting and destructive. In that way the song, perhaps hinting with the title at seeing a future free from mundane mortal existence, fees like a gateway to a better time. Watch the video for “Meshes of the Afterlife” on YouTube and follow Susurrus Station at the links below. Look out for the group’s new album Mythomania due out later in 2026.
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