STATE OF SOUND is a feature on The Sights and Sounds where we select new electronically focused bands/artists (Soundcloud/Facebook followers < 3000) and bring their best songs to light. Getting traction on blogs can be a pain in the ass if you don’t already have traction in, but we happen to think there’s a whole sea of bands waiting to be discovered. Selection for these weekly Sunday ‘Soundcasts’ is highly selective on quality only, as we want to help select the next set of blogosphere buzz bands.  So we hope you’ll share this list with your friends to give these artists the exposure they deserve and return each week for a new set.
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WHITE HEX-“PARADISE” Memories, they just multiply. Cutting short the past in the present midsentence, and saying ‘Hey, fuck you! Unlike the old adage, it was totally me and you, but I’m outtie 3000 so leave me alone’ works a sum total of none of the time. If the past’s legacies wants to have a conversation, if it wants to jabber you as it jabs at your soul, it’s going to. Pretending it doesn’t exist in the very place where you cross shadowy paths of lingering moments you’re hurt by everyday is a fool’s errand. If you don’t talk to it, it will find another way to spread its chatter. Like a gun to the head, it always gets its way. In that case, sometimes the only option is escape. And that’s what White Hex’s track, ‘Paradise’ tackles.’ Over–and in this case this is far from cliche—enthralling, soaring synths, White Hex try to addict your soul to the message of its melodies: go out and find a new life. The past is just going to just club you to death if you don’t.
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YEO-“GIRL (FOSSILS REMIX)” Don’t you know my heart can be broken? Clearly, not, as the way those words stutter over the synths, it’s like a shattering of the spirit.  Just a secret: even those with sternest faces and the seemingly stoniest hearts can be busted into a smattering of sparks. Especially if earthbended by an avatar of tender hands that dares to see the specks of pure life hiding out, weakening at their core, the metal structures that wall off your heart. FOSSILS’ remix of Yeo is a heartbreakingly beautiful ode to humility and tenderness wrapped around a sheath of broken, fragile bird-like bones hobbling their way to the safety of love.  The way it pleads for humane treatment, devoid of a past (which ominously seems to linger around the edges of this track like a poltergeist), makes vulnerability the pinnacle of sexiness. But also a necessary one.
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FOLLOW YEO ON SOUNDCLOUD/ FACEBOOK.

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KASTLE & JASON BURNS-“SOMEBODY (OBEYHIM GET RIGHT EDIT)” We’ve all got to be somebody.  Or we want to be. And if we don’t want to be, then jesus-fucking-christ why are we even living?  Sorry, sorry, sorry: anxiety, man, it’s the driver of our best and  shadow fiend  parts that lurk around us.  It pushes the best of to make music like this, to write exhortations, to lead lives of tempestuous example that light the path of others for a path to some fucking paradise. A paradise we think exists only because we’re on the pursuit to be somebody. Even if that somebody is only being the person that encourages a group of beleaguered Cambodian women that they can bust out and be creative forces on their own. Or inspiring American midwesterners of world’s of feeling outside the cultural vacuums that plunders their lives as ObeyHim does.  Being somebody has all sorts of different scales of action, all that matters is you’re doing one of them. ObeyHim’s focus is all about the ways that we get entrapped in circular modes of nowhere thought that lead us to the belief that shooting apathy into our veins is some kind of thrilling achievement.  But what I like here, on their first outing, is that it never tries to pretend that this anthemic form of life–and the people who lead it–are saintly.  Breaking free is, as this State of Sound has explored, all about the dark and the light swirling around your busted soul in search of, really, fuck knows what…but it’s worth it because why else would you even be living?
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