The Dead Science
Like watching a bridge get built
Hey, kid, wanna hear a story? Okay, what if I told you you’d get paid to work for the construction of a bridge, you’d probably expect to have to move things around, to lift heavy objects, or to rivet, erm, rivets, right? Well, not if you lived in Whiteside County, Illinois back in 1894, because officials from that county paid a man $1.50 per day to watch the construction of the Lyndon Bridge. Local boy Adam Manning was paid to sit back and watch the construction of the structure. BLOWS YOUR MIND AND THEN SOME
Wanna hear another story? So what if someone told you they’d whipped up a song inspired by the Wu-Tang Clan, then you’d immediately assume that it was a muscular, thugged-out hip hop anthem, right? Not if you’re The Dead Science, who knowingly re-appropriated lyrics from Wu-Tang’s Triumph to give the backbone to Make Mine Marvel, an orchestral, theatrical, grandiose epic of a song. No commanding flows or urban beats chugging along here: we instead have a growing, elaborately spliced rock song, which embraces dramatic guitar and drum arrangements to create taut cinematic tension, pushed to unearthly levels by swirling strings and singer Sam Mickens’ vibrating, baroque vocals. Inherently sinister and auspiciously adventurous, this intense whirlwind may have little on the side of street cred, but drips of flawless instrumentation to create a volatile sensitivity as cutting as it is robust.
Oh, and Adam Manning ended up making a cool $56 from his job which, in 1894 money, could have allowed him to buy half of downtown Chicago, but he didn’t.
Nope. He didn’t.
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