Children of Pop
Houston’s own Children of Pop are back with a listen to the a-side from their brand new 7″ Poids/Étude en Cours available June 16 from Very Jazzed/Frenchkiss Label Group. The project of label boss Chase Demaster follows up last year’s “Manic” with latest intimate offering that provides you with a inner-view to DeMaster’s own private world.
“Poids” works in wavering maneuvers of synths that flicker & flash at the listener and then bend to Chase’s own restrained & sung-whispered delivery. Emotions that last along with fleeting feelings roll in the tracks strobing electronic elements that flutter about like a menagerie of exotic digital insects that compliment the earnest & vulnerable vocals. Chase DeMaster introduced us to the new single with the following reflective insights:
I took a few months off from writing and really tried to boil off some of the ideas I was working out of from last year’s full length. Lyrically, it oscillates between two polar perspectives. The things we ask from the ones we love, after time, tend to reflect the notion that our appetite for feeling, be it good, bad, or anything, is never quenched. We are hungry for stimulation in any form to acknowledge our existence. Further, “Poids” recognizes that being in that space is a privilege to begin with and forgetting that for a second is nauseating. We started playing this song live on the TV Girl and Chad Valley tours and I was completely taken by it. It lives on the recording in a much more tranquil place, while live it becomes something so emotive it’s almost paralyzing to perform in front on an audience. A track with weight.
