Silky Roads want you to get angry
Ahead of the release of their debut EP, Granada, this Friday, Sydney-based indie-rock quartet Silky Roads discuss our relationship with the environment:
If we had to talk about any general concerns that we have, it’d be the issues regarding our relationship to the environment, and we’d say that we’re trying to get that message across through our music. Though we don’t let it define us, like many of our generation, we share anxiety about what the future holds for us in the face of climate change and the pandemic, especially in this strange neo-conservative political era. If you listen to our single ‘Pomegranate’ off our new EP, the lyrics have multiple meanings but one of them is fear and doubt about where the power lies in our society as a whole. “Why are the powerful still ‘just messing around?” “Why are we still in a vicious cycle of fear and denial…?” “I fear you and you fear me.”
We’ve all been lucky enough to grow up and go to school in a beautiful part of an amazing country and since our return from overseas travel, we’ve all come to realize that we have a newfound love and appreciation for our hometown of Sydney. As kids we spent a lot of time in our local bush and on our beaches. We explored, camped out, skated and surfed here and it’s in our psyche forever. Ever since we were young, we’ve always loved the beaches, and the ocean, and we are part of the coastal people who feel a connection to the ocean. We’ve come to realize that if we want the beaches to remain as they are, we have to work with nature not against it, and be environmentally conscious in our day to day lives.
We know that the earth is for sharing with everything that lives on it. As humans we don’t have any right to wreck it for everyone and everything else. That’s why we get angry about our government’s refusal to acknowledge the continuous damage they’re doing to our environments and coastlines, and that rather than trying to work towards a better relationship with the environment, they choose to continue down the wrong road, for whatever misguided political and economic reasons.
For example, with the new Proposal of PEP 11 (Petroleum extraction proposal 11) it is obvious that we would be taking a step entirely in the wrong direction. This insane idea could see drilling for fossil fuels in a world-renowned whale migration route and dolphin habitat, risking trashing the marine ecosystem and exposing locals from Newcastle to Manly to the prospect of petroleum spills or gas rigs just off the beaches! It’s unbelievable that they are even considering this anytime, but especially when they should be divesting completely from all fossil fuels – and all just for some quick cash and dirty fuel that’s going to get burned and add to climate change. It doesn’t make sense on any level! There’s is a petition going around to sign against this action. Do it! Write to your MP, get angry!
https://www.saveourcoast.org.au/stop-pep-11/
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Silky Roads’ debut EP Granada is out now. They say, “’Granada’ is a culmination of our excitement in starting to write music, a blooming friendship between four lads, and a bunch of wild world events that have changed the way we interact as human beings. We want to introduce the world to ‘Granada’, and ask everyone out there to take a listen so that we can continue to document our perspectives through the thing we love most, and that’s music.”
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