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Alex Nauva’s Hybrid Synthwave/Chillwave “Vivid” is a Psychic Palate Cleanser

Alex Nauva, photo courtesy the artist

The stream of distorted white noise give Alex Nauva’s “Vivid” the feeling of flying through the air in a dream. The phasing on the main melody line and pulsing rhythm under the soaring higher tone second melody is reminiscent of something you might have heard on an early 80s Gary Numan album. But the composition has breezy, bright quality that feels like a modern re-imagining of the early, experimental syth pop. Nauva is the frontman of Swiss post-punk band OGMH but on “Vivid” there are no vocals, rather layers of contrasting textures and emotional shifts that are both introspective and uplifting. Like listening to the song will cleanse your psyche ever so slightly and in the current period of amplified angst and turmoil we all need a bit of that. Listen to “Vivid” on Soundcloud, connect with Nauva at the links provided and take a listen to his new EP Yume from which this track hails.

open.spotify.com/artist/0sSNWTcImp5SbbdAVxn1WR
soundcloud.com/alexnauva
youtube.com/channel/UCXtJ-IRZsKXPCCq5QAblOXA
alexnauva.bandcamp.com

OGMH’s Anthemic “Red Sheets” Articulates the Sense That We’ve All Been Sold Down the River by Modern Capitalism and its Corrosive Culture

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OGMH, photo courtesy the artists

The melodic, high tone bass line and minimal electronic percussion at the beginning of “Red Sheets” by OGMH calms the mind as the vocals come in with a tone that expresses pain and confusion in a way that is both transporting and affecting. Who can’t relate to the line “happiness is a fraud” that has lived and been honest with themselves and experienced life’s low points at least once in awhile. The keyboards soar and sync up with the rhythm and impressionistic guitar riff to sweep away those dark thoughts as only music that is willing to go to that place can sometimes. Anthemic and urgent the song captures a yearning for something more meaningful and vital in a world where so many of us have been sequestered to a life more ordinary and diminishing returns for our efforts in a way that permeates all of life. “Don’t give me that look like I’ve been lazy,” doesn’t that about sum up the plight of people who have done what they were supposed to do or make a solid effort only to find out its never enough? The song is about the struggles of generation Y but it could apply to anyone who has realized that the international economic and political system as it is is aimed at grinding under the people that don’t matter, those that weren’t born to wealth but sold a lie about hard work and getting an education and what happiness looks like and how you’ll get there if you just line up behind an agenda that never serves your life the way we all assume it should. The track is the lead single from the band’s new album
Void and you can listen on Soundcloud and follow OGMH at the links below.

soundcloud.com/ogmh
open.spotify.com/artist/77Mf2B6N3udwXpUXS9bFHt
youtube.com/channel/UCmfzqF773MnsGEMXBgjrMfw
ogmh.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/realOGMH
instagram.com/o.g.m.h