Why Music Is Important, by Modern Error
Modern Error have announced that their debut album, Victim Of A Modern Age, will be released on Friday, January 21 2022 via Rude Records. To mark the announcement, the band have released new single, The Truest Blue, and guitarist/multi-Instrumentalist Kel Pinchin has written an opinion piece exclusively for us:
Music is one of the most powerful things on this planet. As something we cannot see nor touch, it is an art form that can only be interpreted with what we hear. It can be as beautiful as it can be chaotic, and with that, it has the power to make us feel all sorts of things. One can only wonder what goes through an artist’s head when they created their works, and sometimes, we connect with it in a way that almost makes it feel like those songs are written for us. Although we are losing touch with some values to listening to music that is important to me and others, people listen to music more than ever. So, with the coming of a minefield of the digital age released problems, from lacking attention spans and devaluing of music, we are in fact in the ‘golden age’ of music listening with the listener entirely in control of what they chose to listen to, how they consume it and how they relate to it.
For me, music is an escape. Even with my music, I know that sitting in a studio day in day out working on it is an avoidance in itself. It’s me running from a life I don’t know how to live. The ‘real world’. I am hiding from it in an area that I connected with long ago that is familiar. But with listening, it is a different realm. I can put those headphones on and play an album from start to finish, and during it, I experience almost a state of meditation and bliss. I end up in places I didn’t know existed, like a visitor in other peoples heads. And with those truly spectacular records, I seem to be able to connect with the artist. This has always intrigued me, as music is not physical nor visual. It’s a forever changing canvas, and I can move further and further into its meaning and construction upon repeated listening. This has taken me to a place of analysing music driven by my inner need to understand, which has greatly improved me as a songwriter and an artist.
I love music that says something about the world. That past its layers of textures and infectious hooks, there is a message and a sign of the times in which we all live. The records have been put together with one concept in mind and have all the layers, and everything suggested to this one intent. These records, to me, are the true works of art. This is truly what makes me obsess on albums and pushes me into the bounds of research to see how they were made. The records that share this sort of qualities are: ‘The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails, ’Violator’ – Depeche Mode, The 1975 – ‘A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’.
Although I am worried, like many others, about the state of the industry in this confusing world, music is magical. It will forever drive innovation. It will forever drive revolution. And it will always be there cause us as humans will always want it.
The Truest Blue’ is available worldwide now, via Rude Records.
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