The Empty Page sketches in vivid sonic images and lyrics the toxicity of anti-aging rhetoric in culture and media with “A Feminine Ending.” With almost agonized yet cathartic guitar work and vocals that begin reflective and ramp up to furious the song is like an even darker, noisier early Concrete Blonde song. Shredding how our own self-hatred is marketed to us as inadequacy and insecurity cured by some technocratic capitalist method for addressing specific “flaws” and failing that to encourage us to withdraw from being publicly active and not seeing ourselves as having relevance and power even in our own lives. Especially if you’re a woman. The song feels like urgent resistance against a false and destructive narrative that is somehow still rampant in our civilization and just a thrilling song that gives voice to the instinct to reject being discarded as the worn out parts of the machinery of a deeply dysfunctional society. Fans of Latter and Kaput will deeply appreciate the way The Empty Page combines unfettered emotional expression, sharp social critique and creative expansion of out of obvious subgenres of music. Listen to “A Feminine Ending” on Spotify and follow The Empty Page at the links provided.
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