On most days I get things stuck in my head that I just can’t shift, do you ever get like that? They might be worries about tomorrow, regrets from the past or even monumental events you think may have happened in your parallel second life.
The reality is that most of the time I don’t want these thoughts camped in my head I just want them out, I just want them to leave, but unfortunately it seems the little shits don’t want to leave. They just linger there like invisible squatters in the damp, derelict corners of my decrepit brain. At times I wish I could find something to get them out, like a bullish bailiff storming in to push those pointless thoughts down the stairs, out the back door and back into the darkening forest of piss that they crawled out of. Problem is, I can’t get them out usually, those pricks just dig their nails in and don’t move an inch.
Sometimes on rare occasions though I hit gold, and something ushers these annoying, irrational little fuck worries out of my mind and if only just for a little while I can rest in peace. Thing is, it is usually beer the gets rid of them , a few beers if I’m honest which is fine, but unfortunately beer isn’t accepted by society (or my post weekend delicate stomach) when I’m squashed into a packed train on the way to work on a dark, dark Monday morning.
In these situations what I crave is melody, beautiful, calming melodies to soothe my bruised soul and let me be, but I also need something else, what I need is something catchy. Catchy is important because I need the side effects of the melody to last, a catchy melody will float in and out of mind, keeping the back door held shut and the doom goblins out of my brain for the rest of the day. Finding a catchy melody is easy, problem is the catchiest of melodies are regularly the most annoying so the hunt to find a melody that is beautiful as well as catchy is particularly treacherous like finding a wet patch on a cracker.
Good Luck Charm by Kuchi & TOKYO MARY has one of those catchy, worry killing melodies that I do so crave. It’s the vocal melody of the chorus of which I speak and it has the kind of luscious lullaby like flow that I think if I sang it to my insomnia ridden cat Gary, it would even help him come across all heavy eyed.
The song as whole is of course lovely, it has a definite bedroom pop edge to it, leaning casually on a self-made wall of cleanly strummed guitars, distant synth splashes and a lead guitar that softly tiptoes up and down its tingling neck. The shuffling lo-fi beat that backs it all helps to create a place for the vocal melody to shine, dancing on top of the wall, looking up hopefully at the sole star glimmering in the ever darkening sky.
The overall listenability of this beat can not be understated either, I’ve had it on repeat all week and even when I’m not listening to it the essence of the song still fills my brain with the warm hug of a friendly ghost.
With just another of those miserable Mondays around the corner I suggest you find yourself a doom fighting melody and have it flood your ears with happiness, actually why not make it Good Luck Charm it is being released by Sunset Music and you can listen to it right here
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