Monday, November 18, 2013

Thought provoking, socially apt and rocking songs!!

SERENE SKY Rock Band is not just another rock band that has simply composed a few peppy tunes and added some sort of lyrics to them. Though most of the band's songs have a deeply personal touch that the singer/songwriter Thomas cannot help but put into them, there is a stark portrait of the social, cultural and religious milieu, which has formed the backdrop for the band's upbringing, in the songs. Rather than taking sides and speaking for or against some of the ever-present social realities, the band takes the stance of a frustrated onlooker or a patient observer of the happenings around him. These happenings sometimes provide a caricature-like picture of people and places that we often see in the newspapers and TV, just as some of the lines in SERENE SKY Rock Band's song called "Save" go: 

Not an isolated happening, every day it's seen
In the papers, on TV and everywhere else, but no one's concerned it seems


This state if affairs is explicitly seen in the song called "Devil's Land" that is the highlight of the HIATUS BROKEN album. The first stanza of the song begins with these lines ...

Devil's land, god's own country
In your hands, there's aplenty

... and goes on into the chorus ...

Sometimes don't you hope that those gasoline pumps would explode
Bringing everything down instead of facin' all this obnoxity!!

The song is a clear portrayal of a state which is beautiful, glamorous and luxurious on one side and evil, dark, violent and dirty on the other, added with the desperate anger of the common man. However, it is not just about one city or state; rather, it is about societies all around the world.



All in all, SERENE SKY Rock Band is fully loaded with a set of thought provoking, socially apt and rocking songs with their debut album HIATUS BROKEN. Wait till December 2nd to get the big picture!!


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