You don’t need to see the visualizer music video for “Cleanse” to feel the full impact of its tonal bathing of he psyche. But Six Missing aka TJ Dumser provided one that looks like a drone footage of ocean waves headed to shore and processed in a way that syncs with the strands of sounds flowing and interacting in the composition. Melodic drones stream and motes of melody bloom and fade in a constantly moving yet consistent in its soothing tones and subtle textures like the ocean itself. Dissonance in the track hangs and flows until it dissolves into the harmonic flow so that the song has a therapeutic quality that takes into account the static nodes in the psyche and rather than resist them, take them in as part of a bigger picture of human experience as yet another element of life that isn’t inherently a permanent state even if we can often get stuck in pools of what can feel like negative emotion. That the song isn’t pristine in its tonalities all the way through makes it that much more effective and having the visuals of the waves breaking rather than a simple, unbroken body of water smoothly flowing puts that personal immediacy of feeling in the context of an entire life or at least a period in that life. Because of that the title of the song has a deeper meaning beyond the conventional with cleanse meaning coming to terms with the totality of life and accepting the impermanence of situations, moods and conflict. Watch the video for “Cleanse” on YouTube and follow Six Missing at the links below. The new album Here For Now was released for digital download and streaming on December 15, 2023.
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