all inside (warm nights album) – Queen City Sounds and Art

warm_nights1_sm — warm nights, image courtesy the artists

Is “cave dawnings,” the title of the single by Los Angeles experimental rock band warm nights, a reference to Plato’s “Parable of the Cave” in a way? Because it certainly seems to be about coming to realizations from a place of personal darkness with hushed tones to impassioned heights a more active pace before ending on a not of streaming off into the distance having reached the escape velocity of one’s own personal gravity of emotional funk. The realization also comes in the form of self-honesty in admitting love for another despite the inevitable complexities that lay ahead of the initial, simple, non-logical impulse to love. In the end the narrator of embraces the totality of the experience as something shared. It is, refreshingly, not a simple love song where the act of falling in love is a redemptive experience that always seems to place the burden of things not being ideal the whole time on one person or another with a need to place blame or find fault as a pretext for splitting and going with someone “better.” It is a song that is both melodramatic and realistic at once, a rarity in rock music or any music. Sonically, fans of early 2000s post-emo indie rock will appreciate the expressive guitar work and dual vocals complimenting and providing counterpoint but warm nights is an inherently adventurous group of songwriters and its recently released album all inside takes you through some fascinating changes. Listen on Spotify and follow warm nights at the links provided.