{"id":37467,"date":"2021-09-11T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=37467"},"modified":"2021-09-11T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:12:21","slug":"gustaf-share-new-single-video-for-the-motions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=37467","title":{"rendered":"Gustaf share new single + video for \u2018The Motions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brooklyn\u2019s\u00a0Gustaf\u00a0have shared The Motions<\/em>, the final single\u00a0to be lifted from their debut album\u00a0\u2018Audio Drag For Ego Slobs,\u2019 out\u00a0October 1st\u00a0via\u00a0Royal Mountain Records. It comes ahead of an extensive run of touring throughout the US, UK and Europe that sees them sharing the stage with\u00a0IDLES,\u00a0Pillow Queens, and\u00a0Osees.

Vocalist Lydia Gammill comments on the new song:\u00a0“I always envisioned The Motions as our \u2018walking around New York City\u2019 song. The cadence is great for trudging across a bridge or taking the subway.\u00a0The song is about snapping between the perspective of your chaotic inner narrative while following the precut path of the world around you. Like when you\u2019re strutting down the sidewalk to a song and your headphones slip off for a second to reveal the natural soundscape you\u2019d been ignoring, realizing the world you had been wrapped up in is not the one shared by everyone else. Then you see that everyone with headphones is jumping between their own personal world and the reality they\u2019re actually living in. I\u2019ve found that if you walk around New York City without headphones, the streets are surprisingly silent. It\u2019s us that add the cacophony of our own personal soundtracks.
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The song shuffles through these different perspectives. The hook (watch, breathe, think, see\u2026) mimics the grounding voice inside the narrator\u2019s head going through their next steps while interiorly they\u2019re barely keeping it together. The first (and only) verse is their inner monologue breaking through as they participate in the slog of getting from one place to another. They\u2019re battling the imprint of another person, blaming them for getting in the way of their progress, their forward motions obstructed by the taunts and memory of someone else. Sort of like a hypothetical fight you have in the shower. Just as the inner mind derails into chaos, the second refrain snaps out to the 3rd person and we are back in the world\u2019s choreography of the mundane. The performance of the habitual, human ants dancing along our track.

When you\u2019re losing control of your inner narrative, the motions are the reminder you tell yourself to keep it together. Sometimes though you just can\u2019t help it and get lost in the personal panic of the na-na-need feed of it all.”<\/em>

Watch the video\u00a0clip for The Motions<\/em> via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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