“Damaged Utensils” begins with sounds like cars racing by on a nearby speedway. But Moth Traps has something much stranger in store for us as the soundscape transitions to what might be described as a synth pop song that mutates outside expected melodic shapes and rhythms. The vocals are mix of those that sound slightly slowed own and those that sound sped up like something one might hear on one of those strange albums The Residents were doing throughout the 90s and early 2000s. And the lyrics are also similarly surreal that make sense taken on their own logic. After all what is one to make of a chorus like “In this house we eat with damaged utensils/Always when we die now we use broken crockery”? That’s an interpretation best left to the individual listener given the rest of the lyrics but all arrows seem to point to a commentary on freeing oneself of the limits of preconceived notions of our cognitive framing of the world around us. It’s a bizarre song but one that is indisputably catchy and will strangely get stuck in your head. Listen to “Damaged Utensils” on Spotify and follow Moth Traps at the links below. The full album Atrophy Myths is out now on Exposed Code Records.
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