‘The Sightseer’ is as unique as it is hypnotic and haunting. In fact, we don’t believe that a literary article such as this one can truly convey the record’s potential. Simply, the track walks a very personal and unique path, a quirky concoction of post-rock euphoria, math-rock dissonance, and creative cinematic lyricism. Whichever way you look at it, the listening experience resembles an emotional rollercoaster. Relatable at times, otherworldly at others. Always electrifying.
Human Potential is the project responsible for ‘The Sightseer’, an effort that will translate into a full album, ‘Eel Sparkles’, set to be released on March 6. Human Potential is the solo project of Andrew Becker, an award-winning filmmaker and former drummer for both Dischord Records’ band, Medications, and Brooklyn provocateurs, Screens.
Delving deeper into the single, Becker explains: “This song imagines a Michael Bay production of a film that poses the heretofore unconceived, never answered and potentially inconsequential question, ‘What if Paul Bowles had Instagram?’ Without getting too fastuous, the conceit loosely correlates to a Marshall McLuhan quote I read some time ago: ‘One of the many flips of our time is that the electric information environment returns man to the condition of the most primitive prober and hunter. Privacy invasion is now one of our biggest knowledge industries.”
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