EROSION

Not from THIS nightmare.

Portuguese band DAYMOON returns with their latest release "Erosion", and we may be certain- there is in fact erosion!

Erosion of trust. Of morals. Of certainty. Of hope. Of kindness and compassion and oneness.

Composer/multi-instrumentalist Fred Lessing & company stage a nightmarish scenario from which one may not awaken...

Because it's happening around us and within us too.

DAYMOON utilizes a multitude of instruments, summoning demons, Nazis, forest sprites, and sundry terrors with spoken word, evocatively and passionately sung melodies that evolve, then devolve into increasingly nightmarish hellscapes.

Hellscapes We Inhabit

Hellscapes we've helped to shape, through utter bloody indifference, intolerance, willingness to be herded and chastened and managed.

Through the blandishments of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram- along with all the other (anti)social media. It so happens I just have been mulling over an article about this very subject. The author describes how (anti)social media perpetuates stupidity, greed, and rage over perceived slights and insults.

We're Living This Nightmare

And DAYMOON ain't so sure we can make it through.

We hear insane clown posse's marching and shouting and fulminating- the highly paid, intensely worshipped and idolized madmen and women, all insisting we march to their beat, and drawn in dark, brooding, 'funhouse' tones, usually drifting inexorably into atonality and discord.

Harrowing

Oh dear god how harrowing. We realize as we listen, as we work- yes work!- to follow, to make sense of, that we are held in thrall against our will to this madness. The music forces us, if we do carefully attend to it, to reckon, to fully reckon with what we- collectively- have wrought, evolved and devolved, and have become, perhaps like the frog in the slowly heating water tolerates, then is incinerated, in slow, deathly fashion.

So Fred. Fellow Musicians. DAYMOON:

Ouch! And Thank You!

Like the slap in that old commercial, "Thanks! I needed that!" (But damn, it's a bitter pill to swallow.)

My rating: 3.5 bitter pills. It's better than "good", yet I doubt many progressive rock collectors will consider it an excellent addition to their collection.

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