Short, gritty, and kinetically rewarding: ‘Medication’ is bound to satiate your thirst for valid honky-tonk offerings. Queen Aster is the talented duo behind it, an indie-rock outfit that enjoys an eclectic perspective on their material, with bluesy and country influences often floating to the surface. Hailing from Kentucky, Queen Aster are singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Elizabeth Maines and multi-instrumentalist and film composer Justin Miller.
Despite its uplifting aural contour, ‘Medication’ hides a darker aura, with its lyricism focusing on chronic illness and the struggles with medication and constant broken promises. In fact, there are moments in the song where the mood shifts slightly towards melancholia, almost in a gloomy manner. It’s a dualism that makes ‘Medication’ a vibrant, urgent offering, one that’s likely to resonate with a global audience in different ways.
It’s a rather personal song, too, a piece that stems from Maines’ own experience as a teenager seeking a diagnosis for her chronic illness. As she explains: “I had this image of someone in one of those commercials gritting their teeth and pretending everything was fine when it wasn’t.” What could be described by many as a traumatic experience then gets turned on its head and becomes the playful and uplifting indie matter that Queen Aster delivers so masterfully.
‘Medication’ is taken from the project’s upcoming album ‘Strange Dream’.
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