Chosen by Monk
Do you feel that life has you increasingly running just to keep up, but getting nowhere, endlessly repeating the same routines day in day out but never moving forward? Well, that’s the question being asked by one of our favourite power pop progenitors on this, his second standalone release of the year…
The man with a penchant for black and white suits told me a bit more about the message behind the song, released ahead of a new album due early next year:
The story is somewhat contrary to the music, and highlights a feeling that seems to pervade most of western society at the moment.
It’s the increasing realisation that despite our attempts to navigate the struggles and the routine predictability of our lives, we are essentially getting nowhere while struggling to keep our heads above water despite our best efforts.
And with more of us uncomfortable with how we’re constantly monitored by a tiny handful of the super-rich who not only control our media and harvest our data, but are making rapid in-roads into owning western democracies, we’re seemingly forced to dance to the tunes they play.
But ‘Rats In The Maze’ also poses the question: is the past complacency and hedonism of ours and previous generations partly responsible for how this existential problem has crept up on us all?