My Review: Paris Alexander - Ride to Heartbreak

 

Paris Alexander - Ride to Heartbreak

Planet Earth, in reality, is a mother who gives birth to sadness, loneliness, in an illogical mass of contradictions, where hopes die quickly. Paris Alexander's talent becomes surgical, with an artistic operation in which mutant and different particles compared to the recent past find place in a writing and a vocal expressiveness that leaves you stunned, amazed, with an obligatory anguish for which we are indebted to him because, as an operator of conscience, he paints a picture in which black and gray merge, denying the hope of living uselessly in our dreams, in our breaths and attitudes.

A meticulous production work (together with the trusted Eirene) guarantees precision in this tightrope walker song: the mission of the drum machine to mark the rhythm is not enough to free oneself because in these minutes we find ourselves inside a slow procession, with heavy crosses on our shoulders to make our path stuttering. The guitar and synths rule the scene, with continuous inserts in this oscillating and dark manifestation of notes that seem like tears willing to settle inside our chest to lock everything up.

The musical backbone is given by a few notes, but all surrounded by a leaden atmosphere capable of giving rigidity and conviction to this modality.

The artist from Brighton creates electronic vortices without forgetting his beloved guitar, but what conquers is the whole, the feeling that the foundations of everything proposed have ancient origins, like the memory of a DNA that demands respect and listening. Music like suffocating words, a text like a darkwave avalanche that wanders in the time of the temple of fragility, for a perfect union and that, inevitably, produces seduction and daily tears…

We perceive a change, forced or not we cannot say, of this gentle and educated soul that probably does not put the search for other people's attention as the main objective of his creativity but, without any doubt, through it defines a malaise that is the true virus of this reality. Decadent, melancholic, unhappy, the composition reigns in truth and it is a gift that we must deserve…

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

13th April 2025

https://parisalexander.bandcamp.com/track/ride-to-heartbreak