Bleeding with candor, Porter Robinson is at his most weak in “Russian Roulette,” the most recent single to launch forward of his long-awaited third album.
Robinson’s alt-pop reinvention turns into increasingly compelling with every breadcrumb he drops on the path to SMILE! 😀, which is scheduled to launch on July twenty sixth by way of Mother+Pop. And with “Russian Roulette,” he is written top-of-the-line songs of his profession.
By way of lyrics as uncooked as an open wound, the monitor encapsulates the paradox of the fashionable artist: coerced to commodify their innermost selves whereas grappling with the battle to stay genuine amidst the noise of our vapid world. The lyrics paint a haunting image of a tortured Robinson within the throes of existential dread, utilizing the metaphor of a lethal recreation of likelihood to convey not solely a way of detachment, but in addition a willingness to gamble together with his life.
However beneath the lyrical darkness swirls a bubbly soundscape, a candy-coated bullet laced with cyanide. Every hyperpoppian synth is a hollow-point spherical piercing the veil of the track’s naive optimism, particularly when Robinson stuns with a callback to his fan-favorite hit, 2014’s “Unhappy Machine.”
“The saddest factor about my entire machine / She says, and he or she’s proper, ‘It relies on me,'” he croons. Right here he holds up a blackened mirror, its tarnished floor reflecting the shadowy corners all of us harbor however seldom confront.
“Russian Roulette” in the end builds to a walloping gut-punch when Robinson, who in years previous has opened up about scuffling with despair, realizes he desires to see his mother, thank his dad, kiss his cat, lose his cellphone and marry his spouse “yet one more time.” In a lyrical grenade of profound readability, he exhibits that discovering magnificence within the little issues is commonly troublesome, however for these capable of do it, these easy pleasures rework from mere moments into miracles.
Hearken to “Russian Roulette” beneath and discover the brand new single on streaming platforms right here. Followers of Robinson can now buy tickets to his first-ever world tour, which kicks off in late-August 2024.
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