Artist Close-Up: Ardyn Makes My Heart “Bloom”
Like Overcoats, there are so many young duos rising to pour life’s woes into ice, and make everything feel drinkable. Suddenly, the dryness and thirstiness of life’s “craziness” feels slightly more quenching. Leave it to music to heal the parts of you, like your soul, that medicine cannot. Thus, it is not without irony that Ardyn’s Bloom EP sings to the stress and uncertainty of simply existing.
Ardyn – Throwing Stones (Official Video)
Twins’ Rob and Katy Pearson’s Bloom takes its influence from their childhood, never-ending search for a transcendental paradise where they could take retreat. From pillowed forts to treed nooks, as children we gravitate to wholesome, private spaces that we dream are, actually, places. Of course, when we grow older, we do not hide in bushes and call them kingdoms, but the desire to do so does not, necessarily, leave. Tracks like, “Throwing Stones” and Together” amp up that desire to escape and feel safe and even magical somewhere else. Why we have to leave to feel present in our world is something I know but do not understand, to which “Life Happens” seems to satisfy with a reason; “we are running in circles…. and you are apart of the machine”. Whether we like it or not, we still play into the insecurities of our day, and allow them to take away the fact that we still have the day.
While their synth-rhythms may bop like funfetti, Ardyn have way more insight then their “happy” sound may lead. Funny, even the fact that they they sound bright can, to some, make them presumed as less wise or real. Yet, Rob and Katy are eager to capture reality like breathes, and their harmonies echo fellow artists like, Fleetwood Mac, who had the same initiative. Katy feels like a lighter Stevie Nicks; sugaring her vocals to carry the bitterness Ardyn’s tea; life is a hard experience, but how sure are you that you have not become as rough, as well? For More Information On Ardyn Click Here.
