Album Review: Kane Strang Intelligently Shows Love Makes You Stupid In “Two Hearts And No Brain”
Kane Strang is described as intelligent alternative rock mashed with a 1960’s dark pop vibe. Back in the day, Beatle- Mania, pop music was motivated by the idea that if you pour enough sugar on a wound, eventually, you will not feel it. Sweetness as a cover for bitterness has never worked, but, instead, makes the need for healing a stickier, even numbing process. Enter Kane Strang’s newest album, Two Hearts and No Brain, as a grungy, sonic dream on love’s capacity to make you stupid.
Forget, love make you do crazy things; love makes you do stupid things. We all have had those moments when we look back on old relationships in awe of the sacrifices, sufferings, and, for lack of a better term, stupidities we did for “the one” we loved. “Not Quite”, “Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost)”, and “See Thru” are swimming in the batter and breading of love’s frying tendencies. It is ironic that the greatest virtue of all can be beautifully empowering and dangerously powerful, all at once. Strang’s hypnotic melodies swaddle his sardonic lyrics on how our choices to emotionally invest in moments, dreams, and others are not always intellectually based, which can turn a genius into a fool. Yet, can we stop love’s call or sting? If love is a journey than each lover is, technically, a travel we have to take. Hence. Two Hearts And No Brain, feels like a road into the beginning and end of a relationship’s journey. From falling in love, “Lagoons”, to the thoughts of straying, “Oh You’re Off I See”, or to the breakup “My Smile Is Extinct”, and the mental inability to, initially, see it is over “It’s Not That Bad”, Strang has, literally, written a playbook on the predictability of bad relationships. It is humorous, embarrassing, and enlightening to see how common a relationships’ highs and lows can be across the “coupling” world. Thus, Strang certainly shows he is a meticulous musician and perceptive person. The question is whether or not he is still hopeful?
Kane Strang – Oh So You’re Off I See (Official Video)
Love may make you stupid with lovers, but can we not hope that, one day, we will make a smarter choice? Strang’s voice teeters between casually exhausted by his love-struck situations, and vapidly smart in how he sees all his motivations. For a man that feels and can act wrong, he is, again, incredibly conscious of how he moves and reasons his love for others. Such genius makes listeners latch onto his words like they are hooks to the baiting instrumentals behind him. Strang has truly found the bridge between classic pop and crunching rock, which no one knew needed a bridge. Thus, I love that he ends the record with the usual, ultimate self-affirmation we give ourselves; despite the bad ending, we did our best (“Good Guy”). For More Information On Kane Strang And To Buy Two Hearts And No Brain On June 30 Click Here.
