10/03/2024
Here's the album that I've been recording for a year straight, "Y2K NEVER ENDED", and is comprised of songs that I have had written since I was 16 till now.
Link is at the bottom to listen. Below is a synopsis of the record.
It is, in its purest essence, a late-night radio program going from song to song representing the listener going from peaceful dreams to waking up in the harsh realities of the modern world in my morphing of many musical genres. I wrote so many songs with varying styles from progressive rock, ambient music, hard rock, electronic, pop, spoken word, delta blues, gregorian chant, one song, titled "MARCHING TO PANTRYLAND" (is inspired by Captain Beefheart and Syd Barrett) defying conventional music that needed a thread to connect them all. Each song is literally a different band in my own mind.
The concept of the record is one album divided into halves of "Dreams" and "Reality" into a surreal radio program that mimicks the late-night intrigue of the late, great Art Bell of Coast to Coast AM. The antagonist is represented by "The Cult of Better Days (Always Marching Behind Time)"; a euphemism for people and things who promise to usher us into the future, but only keep us from moving forward to a better future.
Those things being overdependence on technology, consumer-based economy turning into stagnate, conglomerated subscription that benefits no one, a failed post-Cold War dream, effects of the non-stop barrage of the internet on our collective consciousness and our personal well-being, and the few people who benefit from our collective misery in the 21st century while we outsource our senses and capabilities to technology.
The latter-quarter of the album represents a metaphorical battle for our soul not to be taken over machines; that metaphor is that only thing that keeping us from becoming "full-fledged robots" in "Circuitland" is that we still need our basic necessities from "the steadily emptying shelves of Pantryland" that are emptying because our batteries are being ran too low to either make it home, or stock the shelves.
It ends with us returning home to empty places and "The Cult of Better Days" being defeated by us simply unplugging ourselves.
I hope you guys enjoy this. If you do, there's an option to tip and download, or you can just Venmo me -hall-282 (skip the phone number confirmation), to support a CD run. Also, it is mixed for Dolby Atmos if you have that feature on your phone or stereo system.
Thank you guys,
Ryan
My favorite song from this album is "1,000 Years In The Rabbit Hole". It's ethereal, heavy, and discusses how seeking knowledge in the "rabbit hole" is really just a way to dig yourself into another hole that's dark and unpleasant that makes your cynicism a personality trait that will turn you into a terrible version of yourself. No matter whether you believe it and hold it to be true, or you just seek attention for your misunderstood sense of self.
A rock opera about you going through your dreams into the reality of the modern world seeking redemption. A radio-formatted concept album. | Unlimited free listening on BandLab.
