The only thing life promises us is it’s constant rollercoaster of unprecedented ups and downs, the lack of bias and inconsideration for your age, background, gender, race or wealth, not deterring it in it’s choices of what it decides to throw in our direction. The only constant however, the little pieces of familiarity that keep us grounded and get us through the day, are memories. Good or bad, the snippets of life lessons seep their way into our subconscious and hold power over our emotions.
London duo The Survival Code’s latest single and music video ‘Magnetic,’ tackles the battle between holding on and letting go of such things. As the fourth and final release from their EP Crosses to Carry, Coffins to Fill, the track trickles in with Gary McGuinness’ singular and sombre guitar strings. Between the dynamically soft verses, sharp-edged riffs meander their way toward the chorus, as McGuinness’ soft, clean vocals are almost a whisper as he breathes, ‘a tattooed memory.’
Scintillating hight-hat taps from Simon Hartop strip down the verses, and allow for variation in the hard-hitting chorus that emphasises the lyrics as a cry for help in attempting to bury suppressed memories but they ‘always find a way, it’s magnetic.’ Mirroring the storyline, the candlelit visuals depict a man in a state of distress as he is unable to locate a missing lyric sheet, and instead keeps stumbling across a photograph that incessantly continues to reappear, no matter how many times it is torn up or burnt. The realisation that the missing lyrics were scrawled upon the back of said photograph all along, is a metaphor for how experiences and upbringing shape every nuance of our personalities, and to embrace and nurture every part of ourselves. The Survival Code state: “They were meant to be
remembered and written. Whatever forces are at work around us brought them back together, no matter how unlikely or unrealistic – these things happen around us every single day in our everyday lives.”
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