Michael Eden's synths take this end track to new heights, with sounds I simply can't produce or match, whatever i try and do to Kev to make them! Brilliant multi-part old-school (real) synths and theremin lift this track into new realms for me. Who knows, maybe the next Sieben album will sound different again? (It bloody well will, as always, I assure you, whatever direction it takes ;)
lyrics
Come And Ride In The Cult Of Light
KEV: I don’t think they called you a cult.
ME: Shut up, Kev! It was something like that…
Come and ride in the Cult of Light.
Look, I’m no airy visionary, no twisted-truth Koresh,
not vaguely Nostradamic, anyone with eyes to see
can see the world’s a total fucking mess.
So, come, let’s ride, stare the cult conviction.
Dance of Death ray disco, gawp at the light ‘til we see
End Of Times as Science Fiction.
Bile drips from the Daily Vent,
governments for wholesale now, not just rent.
Greed slop-feeds the tight-lipped,
troughing, complicit, as the earth is stripped.
New Armageddon-breed plastic dictators ,
the world forgot so soon. Light, take us!
Sun Divine, wipe us out - and start again.
KEV: I knew you’d say Armageddon, eventually.
ME: Helpful. Thanks, Kev.
credits
from 2020 VISION,
released May 1, 2020
Written, performed and produced by Matt Howden, at Redroom Studio, Sheffield, England, Jan and Feb 2020. P & C Redroom Records 2020 Synths and drum machines on Come And Ride In The Cult Of Light by Michael Eden.
Tender and gorgeous songs from this Brooklyn duo, “and then all over” is a striking, evocative work full of hushed beauty. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 11, 2021