- 2019-10-25
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MUSIC
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PVRIS Releases New EP “Hallucinations”: Streaming
American rock band PVRIS released their third EP “Hallucinations” on October 25th.
The EP was preceded by "Death of Me" and "Hallucinations". Finally, unreleased 3 tracks "Nightmare", "Things Are Better" and "Old Wounds" were added, with total of 5 tracks.
The band signed to Reprise/Warner Records in 2019, the EP is their first release under the new label.
Also, the band plans to release their third studio album in 2020.
Lead singer Lynn Gunn explained each song of the EP below.
“Hallucinations”:
“'Hallucinations,' lyrically… I mean, the very face value aspect is hallucinations, and type of hallucinations you can experience, and personifying that—or turning that into a context relating to a relationship or whatever. But that song encapsulates a perspective I have about the supernatural versus reality versus the physical world, I guess. There’s a lot of different perspectives on how those things exist together or whether they do exist together.
I was reading this book about hallucinations, and one of the key points they brought up was, are hallucinations something that your brain is just creating, something that’s not there, that your brain is just bringing forth to you? Or is it something that is there that you don’t normally have access to in your brain—kind of altering the perception allowing you to see that? And that’s how I feel about a lot of things regarding the supernatural and things of that sort. It was cool to be able to make a song inspired by that.”- “Old Wounds” & “Nightmare”:
“Old Wounds” was actually [written] around the same time I wrote “Nightmare,” same location as well. It was right before I moved to Brooklyn. Both of [the songs are] about the same situation with the same person and that one from the get go felt very special and I was waiting to find the right person to fully produce it and JT [Daly] smashed it. “Old Wounds” is a lot more classic, dark, brooding PVRIS. Both songs are very contrasting to each other, but we’re always doing things that are all over the place.”
“Things Are Better”:
“That song is mostly about coming out on the other end of being really anxious and really depressed, being there in that position, and then later being on the other side of it, realising how unnecessary it is and how you can still make great art, if not better art, when you’re actually in a healthy headspace and you’re taking care of yourself. When things in your life are good, you don’t need to be in a toxic situation, you don’t need to be going through heart-wrenching experiences, to make great art. Obviously if you’re going through that, and you’re harnessing it to put it into art, that’s amazing, but it’s not like, mandatory to create!”
“Death of Me”:
“We wanted to match the seductive grittiness of the song with uncertain, tense and subliminal visual themes. We also hid, in plain view, references to the occult and divination, to be unpacked by the viewer… if they so choose.” -
- source : Rock Sound
