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SPELLING REVOLUTION
Freshly delivered on Friday, Bay Area-based artist Chrystia Cabral (pka SPELLING)'s new album The Turning Wheel is a fascinating listen. Following the evocative 'Boys At School', 'Revolution' is another wonderfully witchy single with a prominent political message. Set over grandiose piano parts, Cabral explains: “The song ‘Revolution’ is about the struggle to feel whole and to find a nirvanic place of ‘completion’ while fighting against and living day to day within a matrix of exploitation...I sing about falling complicit to the grim false narrative of ‘growing up’ becoming a body that lives to labor….as an exhaustive submission that is wearing me down... but that there is still a spark of passion... to resist and reignite. The ‘permanent revolution’ I sing about is this idea that the yearning will never die, it will only grow more powerful within us all----for a world in which our greater virtues are encouraged and nourished----this desire is deep within us and this desire will never die out!” Check out 'Revolution', it's equally enchanting visuals and the rest of The Turning Wheel (out via Sacred Bones now). -Holly Mullineaux
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