Canadian duo Springworks in their usual fashion pair vintage footage and film clips with their increasingly eclectic songwriting as manifested on “Bradbury.” It’s a fond look back at a time when things like going to Mars felt like something that might be a scientific and civilizational achievement for humanity broadly and not a narcissistic, oligarchic power/money grab at the expense of everyone else and everything on earth. Yet the way Springworks composes its layers of sound it’s obvious they’re aware of how even with the best of intentions, our species has a habit of doing perhaps unintentional damage or damage in service to prevailing political and economic ideologies. The piano work flows from melancholic to urgent, guitar provides atmospheric swells, synth a touch of tonal coloring and minimal percussion a textured pacing to the song. It’s lo-fi in a way that fits the aesthetic of repurposing the neglected and forgotten. The keyboard melody later in the song sounds like something out of a Procol Harum song before transforming into a sparkling, cycling shimmer of a sound that fades into an outro that is both abstract and intimate as we see images of a landing craft leave the spacecraft and the worried alien beings there to meet them. They can hardly be blamed. We know how humans can be. The science fiction author invoked in the title had his doubts too. Watch the video for “Bradbury” on YouTube and follow Springworks at the links below.
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