There are certain songs that artists almost hope no one can relate to. Pouring out like a desperate attempt to purge something awful and difficult, they feel more like personal cries rather than any hopeful desire to connect.<\/p>\n
But, as always, they do. No experience is ever truly isolated, no person is ever truly an island, and so a song like Erin LeCount\u2019s \u2018Machine Ghost\u2019 finds a community.<\/p>\n
When talking about the track, LeCount has said that she wanted to make the song sound like disassociation. The opening vocal flares come in and out like they\u2019re breathing, but even more specifically, like they\u2019re being forced to breathe. With the distortion and effects merging something human and angelic with something electronic, it feels exactly like the song title \u2013 like a machine ghost breathing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want us to fuck, I wanted us to make love \/ I didn\u2019t want the cups on my bedside table stacking up,\u201d LeCount cuts through, beginning bluntly and starkly before delivering the emotional blow as she sings, \u201cCause I said I would get it together, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be ready to ever let it go \/ Old habits die hard and I\u2019m trying to sleep the damage off.\u201d<\/p>\n
It all begins here as she lets us into this scene that is clearly deeply personal, of a bedroom left in disarray during a period of depression and disconnection, prompted by a traumatic reminder or an inability to get out from the past. That\u2019s exactly what LeCount likely hoped none of her fans would be able to connect to, wanting to think that they\u2019ve all been spared the pain of that experience, but alas.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Machine Ghost\u2019 is song about dissociation, the feeling of separation from your body in everyday life, at parties and the most intimate moments,\u201d LeCount explained of her own song, \u201cIt\u2019s about going to extreme lengths to try and evoke some feeling again, no matter what it takes and what risk it involves, seeking cheap thrills and painful pleasure. An observation of my own body, relationships and my take on what it means to be both the ghost and the machine.\u201d<\/p>\n
But what\u2019s so special about the song, and what\u2019s so special about LeCount, is the way she manages to marry the sound and message together. Having previously spoken to Far Out about her mission to learn how to produce better and better, she now self-produces all her work to make sure the sonics carry her meaning too. On \u2018Machine Ghost\u2019, that disassociation matches with a desperate attempt to feel is felt as the song soars between heavy, haunting harmonies set to disconnected keys, into big, bold choruses with thumping drums like a person knocking at the door of the world.<\/p>\n
To say it\u2019s gorgeous isn\u2019t enough. \u2018Machine Ghost\u2019 is impactful as LeCount lays bare and builds a world around it that both holds it and reflects it even clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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