Springworks paired a collage of old educational videos with a song that sounds like it was written in another era in crafting “Rest Stop Painter.” The song is about images we might run into in passing in traveling in our youth or adulthood that resonate strongly with us for whatever reasons might anchor those visuals in our memory. Maybe it’s a bit of architecture, or a work of public art or merely a setting that in whatever alchemy of happenstance forms a picture that stays with you. It is these sorts of memories whether visual, in sound or through other senses that help to form our cognitive framework and the ways in which we respond to the world around us. These are the points of stimuli that are the anchors to the flow of information that makes up reality as we know it. The song itself is somewhere betwixt lo-fi psychedelic folk and outsider indiepop with minimal percussion, what sounds like melodica, synth, gently processed guitar and spare yet expressive vocals that clearly have a touch of production on them as well. And there is a quality to the song that sounds familiar and as mentioned before it has an aspect that is reminiscent of an earlier period in pop music development precisely because the lo-fi aesthetic is so well executed it draws across decades with stylistic touchstones much like the imagery in the video and the lyrics that anchor the song in the lived experience of being drawn to the points of memory that endure with us the most. Watch the video for “Rest Stop Painter” on YouTube and follow Springworks at the links provided.
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