Description
The title of the new Oakhands EP ‘A Circle with Many Centres’ is a reference to a short story by Haruki Murakami. It is also the realization by Oakhands that life and feelings cannot be so logically differentiated and dissected as was assumed and practised on the previous album ‘The Shadow Of Your Guard Receding’ but that feelings simply have to be experienced, and that all the personal conflicts are more strongly and universally connected than one would like.
At the root of all interrelated life issues lies depression, which permeates and suffocates all emotions. A socially as well as individually unavoidable theme, with a firm grip on the zeitgeist.
Depression, emotional life’s great opponent, or even the great absence of all emotions, cannot simply be analytically differentiated, but is “simply there”. Oakhands upcoming EP opposes the kaleidoscope of feelings on the debut album and all the analytical attempts at explanation.
‘A Circle with Many Centres’ can thus be though of as the continuation, answer or refutation of the debut album. The latter dealt with one’s own feelings analytically and lyrically with almost manic precision and was artistically (not scientifically) inspired by Plutchick’s Wheel of Emotions. ‘A Circle with Many Centres’ can also be read as a late coming-of-age record. A post-adolescent record about the “true” coming of age around 30, late individual Sturm & Drang phases. About the realisation of where the root of all personal conflicts lies: depression.
Pressing Info:
- Clear black haze vinyl
- Screen-printed B-side
Label: This Charming Man
