My Review: Hey Calamity - On The Run

 My Review:

Hey Calamity - On The Run

The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you're the pilot.
(Michael Althsuler)

Thousands years of life with an invisible clock secretly running inside our history: with an extreme race, we have always tried to defeat it, to make it at least stop for a while. In every human being, the dream is that and the surrender is the intention itself.

From the land that seems to hold this dream most audaciously (generous Australia) comes a man who, with guitars and electric words, tries to keep the sunlight burning in the midst of darkness, and to do so he writes a song which is like a summer storm, a melodic lightning bolt that surrounds us.

One can plummet across time as well as across the sky, having a powerful yet gentle sound wave that guides us through the passing of those hands, with the events experienced, in an attempt to bring joy into the heart, giving the mind oxygen and dream bubbles.

Dave Thomas, with his creature Hey Calamity, returns just a few days after the release of Bleeding Heart, with the ability to give Shoegaze its historical propensity for strength but managing, with sublime and angelic brushstrokes, to bring us into the confines of Dreampop, with his bass work that seems to come out of mid-80s British Post-Punk.

It is songs like this that give us the breath, the strength, to be able to run through the territories of human affairs with the feeling that the warmth of the sun can be our greatest benefit.

And so the guitars become viral, powerful, huge exercises in which the Australian singer's velvety voice flirts with passion and firmness within lyrics that seem to leave a bitter taste in the mouth, but Dave acts with honesty in the course of his observation.

On The Run takes us back to the 90s, with the psychedelic approach of Catherine Wheel and the stubbornness of Chapterhouse, in the magmatic and sensual forest of vapours that seek a sponge to be absorbed: please be generous in your listening, so as to grasp its freshness and vitality.

In conclusion: the risk one takes with On The Run is to better understand reality by waking up dreams, in order to sedate them, because in the end Dave teaches us that life must be lived and with a song like this we can find motivation and strength, in a frenzy of beauty that will give us smiles to spend…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

4th September 2022

https://heycalamity.bandcamp.com/track/on-the-run-2

https://open.spotify.com/track/6dTROXoZpILOIEUAx8SFuG?si=WFHCrPHzTOue45WRQs4Lnw