Album Review: Martha O'Brien - Breathing Wrong
. As a species, we've become so numb to the extremity and dangers of the modern world, that we find it difficult to tune into the beauty that is often parading itself. Paralysis engulfs and nuance is something to be ignored. Of course, it's been designed that way; George Orwell's Soma for the internet age. Social Media models are designed to replicate Fruit Machines to keep you moving as fast as possible and to find something that ultimately you'll pay for. As Alan Bennett once observed " The official line is that we're all customers now ". We don't look deeper than the surface, we don't listen beyond the hook and we don't think about what those words could actually mean. Yes, I am aware of the irony of writing those words on a blog, but had I not been approximately 173 years old, I could have done a Tik Tok video so.. A talented songwriter can make you tune into their world, listen to the nuances and cling to their every carefully-chosen...
