Daily Doses: Gem Club “Animals” From Acid And Everything (2010)

Memories are funny things.

They can have life spans of seconds or minutes, days or weeks, months or years. For most of them as they grow older they’ll start to fray at the edges. They’ll blur and shake, and threaten to completely fall apart between the time you lay down to sleep and when you awake in the morning. Finally in the end they’ll do exactly that. Slip away into dreams, dissolving into your subconscious, without a word, without a whisper, never making you lament their loss. It’s their nature to die without you ever knowing they are gone.

Selfless.

But some memories will live much longer.

Crafted out of the sunlight of perfect moments, or the darkness of the depths of tragedy. They rise from tears of all kinds, from the loudest laughter, from the most heartfelt emotion. Once they breathe, they grow, coiling themselves tightly around limbs, becoming part of who we are. Call them parasites, call it symbiosis, they live as we live, and die as we die. They make us what we are.

Gem Club creates haunting verses that recall all of these memories. Songs that tug on the frayed strings of the faded memories, drifting to their death. Songs that pull at the pulsing life of the immortal ones, which shiver and wrap tighter as they recognize their harmonic frequency. 

In each song on Gem Club’s Acid And Everything you can hear a dirge of the silver trails of these past moments. You can see them wrapped and coiled around the stark piano progressions and string arrangements, and guided in the gorgeous lyrics that drift in the verses and choruses. You come to see each of these songs as a lifeboat.

Tiny memories sent out on their own, beyond the husks of the minds that held them.

Now to live forever. 

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