Eleanor Hammond’s luminously melancholic “Dream Chaser” floats on an ambient melody and anchored by processional beats. It sounds like a 1980s synth pop ballad cast in modern production methods and gently echoing percussion like ideas and words fluttering off into the ether of fading aspirations as Hammond utters the lyrics. It’s a song about not getting lost in the dubious achievements of social media and how the roller coaster of emotions involved can warp your psyche and your goals and define them according to the whims of wherever the algorithms are being tweaked during any given time to meet the demands of marketing and monetization metrics and the ever mutating nature of the flows of engagement. Hammond in her yearning voice encourages herself and anyone listening to trust not in the whims of others as dictated by the demands of a corporation and its complete lack of truly personal regard for you as a human and focus on the tangible and genuine immediacy and intimacy rather than its unsatisfying virtual attempt to simulate the same. Listen to “Dream Chaser” on Soundcloud and follow Hammond at the links below.
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