https://www.high-endrolex.com/18

Lost Relics Premiere “Unrealistic Cause” Video; New EP out Next Year

Posted in Bootleg Theater on December 7th, 2020 by JJ Koczan

lost relics

Angular, noisily crunching riffs pervade the new single from Denver four-piece Lost Relics. In following up their 2019 debut EP, 1st (review here), the band recently unveiled “Unrealistic Cause” and as of today — right now, actually — they’ve got a new video to go with the track. Like the song itself, the clip is straight-ahead, brooding and aggressive, and pulls approximately zero punches in letting the listener know its intent. Amid dark, green-tinted lights, quick cuts and an alternatingly rolling and charging groove, dual vocals issue proclamations of coming revolution and urge their audience to get educated and “eradicate the wealth.”

Wouldn’t that be nice? If that happened? If your racist-ass neighbors were like, “You know what, I’mma go read a thing and have my mind changed by it, then I’m going to act on that change.” The idea has persisted for too long that “hearing all sides” is the best avenue toward progress. Bullshit. If one side is saying “$20 an hour minimum wage and public-option healthcare” and the other side is saying “babies in cages,” you do not need to listen to both sides of that argument. You need to invest in education, particularly underserved rural and urban communities.

I don’t disagree with Lost Relics‘ position, and hey, if the revolution’s coming, cool. But part of the reason the status quo seems so immobile in America is because we’re taught from the lost relics unrealistic causetime we’re two years old that capitalism and competition for resources is the natural order of things. I see this shit all the time, even with my toddler. Parents are like, “share your toys,” to their kids at the playground, but you can tell they don’t mean that shit, and the kid can tell too. Get all you can, junior; life’s short and ain’t nobody ever bought their parents a house with a poem.

Education is the answer. But “educating yourself” is something that cultural forces and major, billion-dollar-making corporations have actively worked to make it harder to do, never mind something like wealth redistribution. The kind of mindset shift that’s needed to promote even vaguely progressive causes in the US is the work of generations. America has no coherent “left wing,” only disconnected movements, many of which are based around causes that a majority of voters actually support — see Black Lives Matter, gun control, a woman’s right to choose, trans rights, again, public healthcare, etc.

And if you think that disjointedness is an accident, don’t kid yourself.

There’s a lot of divorcing of heavy music from social issues — something I suspect it’s easier to do since so much of the demographic makeup of the heavy underground remains white and male. And Lost Relics, who’ll have a new EP out in 2021 through Golden Robot Records and Coffin and Bolt Records, are indeed four white dudes. But that divorcing isn’t what’s happening here. Seems pretty obvious at this point, but what Lost Relics are doing in the three-plus minutes of “Unrealistic Cause” is examining the world around them and prodding their audience to question why things are the way they are. As regards sides to take, it certainly beats the alternative.

Enjoy the video:

Lost Relics, “Unrealistic Cause” official video premiere

Denver dirt rockers LOST RELICS have dropped their new single Unrealistic Cause via Coffin & Bolt / Golden Robot Records.

The weight of indifference is the boulder that crushes our society. Empathy is dead and with it so are we. It is an Unrealistic Cause. LOST RELICS employ Richter scale riffs to manifest the emotional density of these troubled times. Songs of protest. Songs of desperation. Songs for the end.

Formed from the ashes of Low Gravity, The Worth and Smolder and Burn, Marc Brooks, Jess Ellis, Jason James and Greg Mason quickly hit the ground rolling with their monstrous riffs with breakneck changes and dual vocal delivery. After releasing their self-titled EP in February of 2019, they have steadily been taking the stage to open for national acts and playing festivals across the front range of Colorado.

After teaming up with Coffin & Bolt Records in September of 2020, Lost Relics is now in the process of finishing up an EP for release early 2021.

Lost Relics are:
Jason James : Greg Mason : Jess Ellis : Marc Brooks

Lost Relics on Thee Facebooks

Lost Relics on Bandcamp

Coffin and Bolt Records on Thee Facebooks

Coffin and Bolt Records on Instagram

Coffin and Bolt Records website

Golden Robot Records on Thee Facebooks

Golden Robot Records on Instagram

Golden Robot Records website

Tags: , , , , , ,