Ghost Pressure dive into the darker side of alternative rock in “Sunless Dawn,” a turbulent song exploring perception, memory, and life’s transience.
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We live at the mercy of our memories: Our view of the world, how we interact with it every day – all our behaviors and thoughts are connected to our understanding of past and present. It no doubt shocks the system, then, when we learn our memory itself is fallible; that the sights and sounds we remember from years past may not reflect what really happened. New York’s Ghost Pressure wrestle with this notion in “Sunless Dawn,” a powerfully dark song exploring perception and its significance toward life’s transience and temporality.
You just keep on moving
Melodies intertwine
I wake with your song
Present in my mind
Sunless Dawn
Listen: “Sunless Dawn” – Ghost Pressure
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Ghost Pressure dive into the darker side of alternative rock in “Sunless Dawn,” whose name itself echoes with a vision of shadowed moments bereft of hope. The band describe it as the “negative space of human living;” that poetically poignant image resonates throughout their music.
Rain can keep me here with you
The quiet brings the calm
Listen while I play for you
Until a sunless dawn
If I could
Bottle the first sound
That you ever heard
I’d keep it
And show you when your ears
Were fully matured
“My grandpa Ken died when I was 5, but the sound of his voice stuck in my head — or so I thought,” Lauren Diehlmann tells Atwood Magazine. “Years later upon watching home movies, he spoke and what I heard did not match my memories. My mind’s ear stored a much deeper tone than what was heard on the tape. I wondered about the size of my ears and the sounds I was hearing. Was his voice always that high? Was I hearing something deeper because my ears were physically smaller and still developing? What would the first noise you ever heard out of the womb sound like to your fully matured ears? Or better yet, what would the first noise you remember hearing sound like once you were fully grown?”
Ultimately, “Sunless Dawn” questions our perception of reality, versus reality itself. How do we see the world, and how does that impact our memories of loved ones? Furthermore, how much of that matters? Do we need to recall someone exactly as they were on tape, or is it better that we appreciate who they were in our eyes and ears; to remember them for how they seemed to us?
Sunless Dawn
Rain can keep me here with you
The quiet brings the calm
Listen while I play for you
Until a sunless dawn
Ghost Pressure is not the same band you heard in 2016. Two years and a significant lineup shift present a mature rock band driven to hard emotions, a group whose willingness to take risks allows them to explore a diverse array of heavy, hearty sounds. If you’re drawn to the likes of Warpaint and Wolf Alice, you’re likely to find a new home in Ghost Pressure’s dark, turbulent energies.
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