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The song skillfully expresses the complex demonization and deification of womanhood throughout history If there were ever a musical act to embody the adjective of rebel, Purity Ring is that act. Starting in 2012, with debut album Shrines, vocalist Megan James has delivered dense, mysterious, beautifully threatening lyrics, and producer Corin Roddick has turned the idea of…
WOMB delivers a complex spiritual reflection for today’s distant world The electro-pop band, Purity Ring, might not be a household name, partly because the two-member act’s overwhelming sound and often gory lyrics don’t subscribe to the modern majority’s palette of musical taste. But, after a five-year hiatus since their sophomore album Another Eternity, writer/vocalist Megan James and…
Just a few years ago, I would not have described myself as a “music person.” I didn’t have a favorite artist or favorite genre of music. Most “popular” songs I regarded as shallow. I sang hymns in church, but loved them more for their words than anything else. (I mean, have you read “The Love of God”?) Occasionally, I listened to Christian radio and had a passing familiarity for what is termed “contemporary” in that genre.
But my ambivalence toward music in general changed when I discovered what can only be called “fantasy music.”
Continue readingIs ‘Fantasy Music’ a Thing? 5 Songs That Inspire the Way Fantasy Stories Do
It’s time… for me to release this playlist into the Demiworld. Below are 19 songs that served as background music while writing — and daydreaming about — Rise of the Seers. It’s more mood music than anything else. Songs often resonate in ways that prose cannot. I think you’ll enjoy these tracks and I hope that they serve…