The Indianapolis-based composer, singer, musician, and former founding member of proto-psych-punk outfit TV Ghost, Jackson VanHorn, returns, under his new Electronica-charged, contemporary Post Punk moniker Memory Index, with a DIY Official Video for the second single, “Sorrows,” taken from the forthcoming album “Erosion,” via the German independent label Cold Transmission Music.
“The song explores the impulse to shut out the world when everything feels like it’s spinning out of control. With so much noise — endless opinions, pressure, and chaos — “Sorrows” pushes back. Its sound reflects this defiance: danceable, electronic post-punk with a steady pulse that keeps you anchored while everything else tries to pull you off center.”
Relentless punchy drum programming propels the hypnotic, head-down course, wrapped in a dire, surreal ambience built by a profoundly emotional orchestrated instrumentation woven over gripping bass lines that shift back and forth between thick, slightly squelchy undulations and sinuously wistful melodic pulsations, alongside desolate blurry drifts and deep, airy synth trembles, to softly sway yet energetically stir around sad, frustrated ghostly vocals, sick of all the past sorrows instigating present day devastation.
When a person’s mind is made up about things and they are ready to move forward, a never-ending trail of sorrows causes distraction, vexation, resentment, and worst of all, a careless disconnection where the fear of losing it all veils a bright horizon. Jackson VanHorn, as Memory Index, sings “Sorrows” under negative light conditions while scratchy, distorted, and transparent imagery-laden overlays play on top like shadowy memories to evoke the dark cerebral mood of the soundtrack.
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