‘Radio Jane’ by King Ropes sounds like a layered indie-rock song that highlights a looping pervasiveness through its lyrics and tone. The song feels contained in a space that feels small but not limitless, one where it feels like life passes by uninterrupted.
Muffled lead guitars and insistent drums keep time while also feeding into this looping soundscape. Something about this moody sonic landscape keeps its listeners hooked at a distance, giving the song time to express a unique, disonant tone.
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‘Radio Jane’: Pervasive and Layered
‘Radio Jane’ describes a life that flashes past with every line. The only constant seems to be Radio Jane, or music that seems to play anywhere it can. “….Radio Jane on the radio,…in your car,…on the dancefloor,….at the bar…”.
These lines capture how quickly time seems to go by, while also capturing a sense of looped mundanity:
“…Bang bang, we’re little kids, bang bang we’re old men,
Bang bang it’s almost over, bang bang we do it again,…”.
In a way the song’s lyrics give space for an interesting bent of expression. The soundscape captures looping and almost uneasy bursts of emotion that feel grounded in their obtuseness.
The lines run into one another like so:
“…I keep on moving that’s how I do it
Sometimes I mumble
I stir up trouble sometimes I stumble its not subtle
But its obtuse…”.
In the end, Radio Jane is everywhere, whatever she may be a metaphor for. “…She’s in your headphones,…she took it way too far. Radio Jane (is) in your head now…she’s on the radio…”.
These lines ring out between two intervals of muffled guitar solos that reflect a progression of their own. The first is staccato, trinkling in at realising Radio Jane’s pervasiveness. This while the second feels fully realised, as though acclimated to this realisation and immediately adapting to it.
All in all, ‘Radio Jane’ by King Ropes feels like a song that requires multiple listens. Its meaning is layered and feels deeper than what’s on the surface. Everyline sounds like it means more, and every listen gives the listener insight into its sprawling and intricate message.
The Artist
King Ropes is a Montana-based band that uneasily perches between Indie and Dessert rock and ragged Americana. Their music is full of open spaces and jagged edges while holding echoes of acts like Pavement, Queens of the Stone Age, The Velvet Underground, and Kurt Vile.
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