Survival Skills’ “Tethered” is Like the Luminously Captivating Outro Music For a Cosmic Science Fiction Series

Survival Skills, photo courtesy the artist

Despite its title “Tethered” by Survival Skills sustains a steady momentum suggestive of linear movement. Like the soundtrack for a transcendent, science fiction side scroller video game. Layers of synths intertwine and trade out prominence in maintaining a theme and a tone run through with a dynamic rhythm that pulses and hits percussive accents. Another image that comes to mind is like the outro music from a season of a TV show about the adventures of another Gallifreyan time lord that isn’t the Dr. Who. You can almost hear the luminous imagery and stream of stars or the visualizer of a trip through a worm hole to another galaxy in the song’s cycling drones and fragmenting streams of sound. Listen to “Tethered” on Soundcloud and connect with Survival Skills at the links below where you can also listen to the rest of the recently released Cascade Concrete EP out now on Bandcamp.

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