"Species" (Niecesandnephews song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

Niecesandnewphews, Lines Appearing Parallel cover

The title of “Species” from the recently released Niecesandnephews EP Lines Appearing Parallel (out May 7, 2020) references our collective experience as humans without being human specific. It hints at how we’ve been conditioned to think we’re atomized individuals who struggle with issues only we are experiencing, a mindset that pushes us back into ourselves, the norm of life under modern capitalism that creates social norms and ways of living that erodes a sense of community through commodifying everything and making it all seem like segments of experience we can buy or take in episodically while we go through life reifying this economic and by consequence cognitive arrangement that tries to streamline human life to suit a particular model of profit making. The song breaks down this way of thinking by drawing you in with basic elements that build and synergize to create a stream of listening experience that includes familiar textures of music, comforting textures and melodies both abstract and soothing through minimalistic piano compositions. The dynamic breaks with rigid notions of time signature and carries you along a route that goes where it will while maintaining a consistency of pace that makes becoming immersed in its atmospheres early on and lets you out with some grace at the peak at the song’s conclusion. It helps you to accept it on its own terms by its own logic without imposing demands upon you as a listener except some level of trust that, unlike many jobs, you will not be abruptly ejected at the end of the ride. In the context of the EP it goes into another realm of psychic cleansing in the next song. Listen to “Species” on Soundcloud, the rest of Lines Appearing Parallel on Spotify and connect with Niecesandnephews at the links provided.