Album Review: Bent Knee Show Humans How They Are A “Land Animal”
When music makes you dream, I find it successful. Whether that dream is good or bad, does not necessarily reflect upon the music itself. The Music is simply a spark to fire that only assures it is lit, but never challenges how it burns. Bent Knee sees music like a lighter to your inner fire/ dreamer, but you have to analyze why, who, what, and where you get sparked from their songs. This may be why their new album, Land Animal, feel like a bonfire into your heart.
“Holy Ghost”, ”TerrorBird”, and “The Well” haze through your attention to reveal in their instrumental smoke how you have been bonding with life. From Luke Faas to James Young, I do not find it strange how common apathy has become a theme in music. Entertainment reflects and molds humanity; it is both a symbiotic and cyclical relationship. The idea that how we associate with the world is how it associates with us is one that we learn as children, but forget through the years because it grows harder to see the depth of this notion. In songs, “Boxes”, “Insides In”, and “Time Deer” Bent Knee deconstruct themes like time, self-reflection, healing, trauma, and insecurities as if they were lyrical vegetable in their spiritual chicken soup. In some ways, Land Animal might be a musical version of the acclaimed book; it is stories and symbols reveal that there is more to humanity than meets the eye. Hence. Bent Knee uses earthy tones and arrangements, which in their concert, become spiritual. It is strange to say that instrumentals sounds “spiritual”, but when you listen to Land Animal each song appears like a room in a temple. To press play is to enter a holy space and confront how you have followed the best and worst of human construct.
Bent Knee – Land Animal
From my concert review, I made it clear that Bent Knee is band based and thrived in human connection. Thus, it makes sense that their debut and songs, when heard through headphones and radio, become detailed expedition into how human beings create themselves. Personally, I love and feel drained by the idea that I make myself, which is why “Belly Side Up”, “These Hands” and “Hole” become like my soul’s sonic companions Courtney Swain is becoming my vocal therapist (lol). I marveled at the maternal nature of her presence, and it radiated through Bent Knee’s bright, folk0rco tracks. They see vocal, percussive, and stringed instruments like one would the ocean or sky; they should always feel natural in beauty. For More Information Bent Knee And To Buy Land Animal Click Here.
