“Plastic Lungs” is a song that sounds like its falling apart as it goes forward. It has a loose clockwork beat and its layers of atmospheric discordant guitar work really fit the mood of a song that seems to be about someone who is coming apart more than a little himself. Lines like “I know that memories and nightmares sometimes feel the same” and “I don’t think my dreams are as kind as they used to be,” “I know you’re wondering what’s wrong” and “I think it’s happening again but when” resonate with the feeling of someone who has experienced a mental breakdown in the past and/or witnessed it in someone close to them. In the music video the wintry kaleidoscopic colors and the doubled imagery and a face obscured by colored television snow and other imagery and it pairs well with the song and its themes of being on the verge of being overwhelmed by one’s own personal demons yet resisting that pull with creative work and expressing the possibility with emotional honesty rather than trying to hide from one’s own psyche. Imagine a lo-fi Mercury Rev gone lo-fi shoegaze indiepop and you have a good idea of the rich tonal moods of Rew’s song “Plastic Lungs.” Watch the video on YouTube and follow Rew at the links provided.
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