The throbbing, groggy bass in Fever Dream‘s murky post-punk songs sounds like an addict who just can’t quit his habit. Every so often, triumphantly, he flushes all the drugs down the toilet; “this time it’s for ever”, the real deal, except it’s not, it never is, and inside his head he knows it’s not, he knows that in two months he’ll be repeating this symbolic performance, and it’ll be just as pointless, just as contrived, and the only truly brave thing to do would be to admit that he can’t quit, that he’s weak, that the resolve is lacking, that the need is just too strong to subdue. But instead he just goes on, quitting and unquitting, quitting and unquitting, locked in a demented, psychedelic cycle.
The Waste is the debut single, and it’s being launched at The Others in Stoke Newington on 3 February.
Fever Dream - Poyekhali! (mp3)