It’s always fun when a musician employs an unusual process or technique when making their music. Polish-born / Dublin-raised Mateusz Kosnik (aka Poor Petal) is one such artist.
Describing his music as “the soundtrack of memories yet to be made” (great phrase btw!), he often preserves the first, unpolished takes of recordings and builds songs around them.
‘eyedrops’ is the 2nd single from Poor Petal’s upcoming EP, and it’s a wonderfully quirky, halting sound. Lo-fi keys, a distant ghostly vocal, and stuttering percussion. If I had to label it, I would call it lo-fi indietronica.
Sub bass adds a nice glowing warmth, and as the beat snaps and crackles away, an electric piano hook is on a loop, becoming more and more hypnotic as the track progresses.
There are untold strange sounds – I think some were played backwards – intricate guitar parts – a baby talking – the slurp at the bottom of a drink – it all adds up to a cacophony of originality. I bet this is unlike anything you’ve heard in ages.
The song is about warm summer memories, but – like the music itself – the lyrics don’t give much away and are quite disorienting:
“I drop eye drops in the firelight
You know it works when I feel alive
I see, I see out the window
Night passing with the train as the wind blows”
I love it when a song is so original and surprising that it makes you want to listen again as soon as it finishes – ‘eyedrops’ is one of those songs, and I didn’t even see it coming!
Written by Grubby
