Vancouver pop due The Zolas have created a music video for the song “Escape Artist” off the 2012 album Ancient Mars. Their album which we’ll find on Light Organ Records, is a pretty solid listen. “Escape Artist” is a stand out.
Zach Gray talks to NPR about the song: “I was writing about the feeling of having a more vivid version of yourself suppressed inside you. There’s a version of us that says ‘yes’ to everything and seeks out little adventures and has a healthy disregard for dumb rules, and every time that person gets close to the skin, the other part of us goes “Whoa, whoa. Can’t we just chill out tonight?”
The music video is an interesting drama that unfolds over the quick 2:48 of the song. The lyrics of the song are interpreted in a way that maybe is not fully apparent at first, the but the song fits the narrative so perfectly.
OK, The Zolas didn’t make Spin’s 40 MUST SEE artists to check out at this year’s SXSW, but they would be on my top 40!
I asked Zach about the title of the record Ancient Mars. Great name right? And he referred me to YouThink Magazine: “I think Ancient Mars is a bit of a nerdy metaphor that I’ve always liked. We’re getting all of these pictures from the Mars Curiosity rover, and so scientists have been saying that there was a good chance there was water or vegetation at some point. Now we’re getting photographs of rounded pebbles that look like they’ve been in a riverbed on Mars. It’s interesting to think that Mars had its hay day, but two billion years later there’s next to no evidence of any of that ever happening; there was life, there was water, there were canyons, and now there’s nothing. It kind of reminds me of the quick intentional relationships we have when we’re young. At some point that person was the most exciting, most optimistic part of your life, and then you switch schools, or move away or maybe they just drift apart. Then two years later you run into that friend, ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend at that store somewhere and it’s just barren – there’s nothing there between you. In my mind, Ancient Mars is that beautiful place you can’t go back to once you’ve left.”
Go with yourself.
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