Album Review: Missio Play For the Future “Loner”
Picture yourself in a future dystopia. You are a young, lonely kid with ambitions beyond the grey cyber walls and propaganda banner waving around telling you to vote for corruption. As you walk around and see scrap metal fold as much as your dreams, you want to rage. Missio’s debut album, Loner, is the equivalent of that scenario; it is music for the future youth in revolt.
MISSIO – Middle Fingers
Missio has a cinematic approach to music, which explains my visual above. Although their songs are not, necessarily, narratives, you cannot stop seeing visuals of broken societies and young revolutionaries marching for a better future. In this world, that scenario actually feels relevant. Hence, songs like “Middle Fingers”, “Kamikazee”, and “DWI” are three minute anthems against any future where you cannot be you, and any present aiming for the such a timed path. Matthew Brue has soulful voice that feel weighted by the bolted synths and chaining chords produced by him and fellow musician David Butler. The Colorado-started duo united to push each other’s musical technique and creativity, of which Missio was born. Using lyrical prowess and instrumentals that range from pressed to pariah-like, Loner is an album for those envisioning the darkness of tomorrow with the plan to be its light. Let us be honest! Who does not watch the news, and feel like The End Of The World Is Nigh! Hence, “I Do What I Want” and Everybody Gets High” have the mischievously machinated rhythms that make you dream you are dancing at a seedy techno-club in 2083. Blade Runner could run rampant through songs, “Twisted” and “Animal” as again, Brue’s voice is like a roughened presenter/guide. He guzzles the hurt and reactionary passion that comes from being young and feeling like your voice is discounted as inexperience despite being wise. Moreover, their cathartic words on struggling to numb one’s humanity in the face of others’ apathy play to listeners’ desire to shut down in the face of feeling so shut out.
MISSIO – Everybody Gets High (Audio)
Whether you want to turn life into a film or dance like you are in one, Missio’s Loner is an excellent debut. Its songs will play perfectly in concert because they are pure escapism. To press play is to enter their dystopia, and to follow their beats and beaten words is to say that you have joined their duo of sonic anarchists. For More Information On Missio, To Buy Loner, Or See Their Upcoming Concert Date Click Here.
