My Review: Hey Calamity - Ocean In Between Us

My Review:

Hey Calamity - Ocean In Between Us

Since time immemorial, human beings have almost desperately led themselves towards a search for contact that eradicates loneliness in the first instance. Then love comes along to improve and change the meaning of everything. And distances can be shortened by compacting desire and reality.

Inevitable considerations when you listen to the flagrant and moving new composition by Hey Calamity, a project by Dave Thomas who produces songs as if he were fishing for pearls without a moment's rest. We find ourselves inside the fluidity of guitars elegantly married to melody without sacrificing power: Ocean In Between Us is a praise of contact, presence, bringing one fertile hand inside another, with dreamy vocals as the words touch lightly our heart to cradle it. 

The magnificent final instrumental part is really able to make us fly over the ocean, so that we can get closer to those we love. 

In a few minutes, loneliness is imprisoned, undermined by a reality that peacefully blesses existence.

To do so Hey Calamity welds the whole musical experience with a cloud of notes flying over the water, with colorful confetti to cheer up the oxygen, with shoegaze crackles that feel like an embrace, a powerful drumming which lifts the legs for a dreamy dance, a poignant melody that makes the beats weepy and capable of giving thanks.

A song that brings sunbeams into our dreams, into our dull daily acts, for a strength that this listening can make real.

Another gem which will fill your hearts because Dave, as a sound gentleman, cares for us all to make existence a cradle that opens confidently to the world.

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

15th September 2022

The song will be available on 16th September 2022