Void (OGMH album) – Queen City Sounds and Art

OGMH2_sm — 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.