With its languid, shuffling pace, Mr. Gnome’s “Mind’s Gone” is a day dream-y meditation on existential crisis and a tentative acceptance of uncertainty. The chrous of “My mind’s gone, I don’t even know just where to find it, I don’t even know just where it’s hidin’” speaks to being in a place where you’re questioning everything at a time in your life when everything seems up in the air and you try to maintain but you’re not sure you can. The simple rhythm, the echoing piano chords and the slightly distorted vocals with the hint of background spectral drone create the impression of despite a soul-felt state of having felt like you were on the right path and doing the right things and realizing that the carpet has been yanked out from underneath you. Over the past several years many people especially in the creative space have felt this and the pandemic amplified the precarious ability to pursue one’s art with integrity and without heavy distraction. With the cost of living having boosted egregiously over the past 12 years or more you can feel like what do you have to do to survive because the foundations of life have been eroded so quickly and then the world seems to be falling apart so what do you do? You try to hang on and hold onto the things that give you life meaning and if you’re a songwriter you write about that situation with a poetic truth and make music that doesn’t feel like it’s trying to evade a clear and present reality and struggle which Mr. Gnome has done here and on the rest of it’s new record A Sliver of Space due out for streaming, digital download and on CD and vinyl on September 27, 2024. Listen to “Mind’s Gone” on YouTube and follow the Cleveland-based experimental rock band at the links below.
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