Concert Review: The Silk War Are Rock N’ Roll Darwinism

Entering Berlin’s tight quarters with my Vaxx card and mask, I oddly felt transported to a European dive bar, especially since many of the crowd had on punk metal jackets, Brigitte Bardot hair, and flower prints. The duality of the crowd’s rocker tendencies combined with their 60’s aesthetic felt apropos for a band that veils emotional cushions under gut-busting guitars and psychedelic drums.

As a lead singer, Alexandra Blair, kept on going into the crowd, grabbing a whiskey, in her ventures, she felt like a combination of Alanis Morrisette and Alice Cooper: two people with jet black hair and a determination to end patriarchal burdens. In some ways, the “patriarchy” lives on through the very thing that makes us feel alive: love. Nearly every track, was a gut-busting opus to falling for the wrong people because you see yourself as the wrong person. It is a logical as much philosophical notion: if you don’t feel worthy of love, you attract people that punish you, and if you do feel worthy of it, you attract people that praise you. In perspective, of their interview and debut, I felt they were like Rock N’ Roll Darwinism.

I remember learning about Darwin, and finding out that he was not, necessarily, the first or only person to discover the theory of evolution. He was simply the first to publish. It was in the ethers that humanity evolves and adapts according to those that can shed away what does not suit them to become powerful and survive. Thus, in a way, his publishing gambit most embodied the theory, managing to get to a finish line first and win it all. I mention this because tracks like, “Barcelona” and “Blue War,” when live, brought out that sentiment. Whether it be love, self-love, or the strange intermingling of both, their arrangement and lyrics felt like calls for the survival of the fittest.

It was hard, at least in performance and aesthetic, to feel a combination of classic rock with 90s pop rock. Classic in its psychedelic bashings of cosmic and 90s in its sugared, lyrical references to how love can sweep us away and, if not careful, throw us in the trash. #survivalofthefittest. For More Information On The Silk War Click Here.