The world is becoming more chaotic. Are we destined for disorder?
“Eastern Promise” is the third single by the IV (the eye vee / ði aɪ-viː), the minimal Post Punk music project of Engvild Nærum (Are You Having Fun Yet, Ē) from Oslo, Norway, underpinned by Per Åsmund Reymert (Dead Movie Animals, Despereaux) on bass and Peter Hiley (Are You Having Fun Yet, Gold Celeste, Mats Wawa, The Wit) on guitar.
“Eastern Promise” not only dwells in the pain, broken promises, lost hope, and disunity inflicted upon people by elite greed but also attempts to help people rebuild a sense of self in the Post-Industrial world.
Setting down the struggle to shed fear and embrace hope, the song rolls on subtly rattling, skipping drums, meandering surly bass lines, and wiry plaintive guitar chords, achingly echoing and, ultimately, swelling louder over subdued, wistful pain-filled vocals, mesmerizing with the insistent chorus “We shall overcome / We will never be the same.”
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photo by Hallvard Bruøygard
