GOWNS Releases Newest Single “Plastic Wings”
Beginning as a unity of friends in 2018, GOWNS tells an unconventional tale through cathartic ‘80s pop and early 2000’s alternative rock garments, calibrating the lens in which we see the world. The five piece band are starry-eyed lovers of life and the world’s warmest welcoming committee honing the craft of individuality through fashionable grunge and untouched, illuminating tones.
“Plastic Wings” is the beginning of an after-life from their Revelations album tattooing an honest story of treachery and greed that addresses, and softens the edges of formidable love.
The introduction charges with an uprise of color, flavor, and buoyant energy. A grand entrance furnishing an orchestra of a heart-filling kick-drum that creates a pillar for the song’s dreamy, melodic synth. The synth soars freely in the clouds and climbs down slowly, brushing over the mix benevolently like fresh, glistening paint.
The song is filled with anticipating builds coated vibrantly with luxuriant harmonies. A whispering high-hat is accompanied with clean guitar accents fulfilling the song with a unique reminiscence of Death Cab For Cutie, Mumford & Sons, and The 1975. With tasteful elegance, “Plastic Wings” is a cultivation of edge and glamor.
Lead singer, John Bair, airbrushes the song with his bright voice decorating the atmosphere with an incipient straight tone into a wispy vibrato on lingering lines. Making peace with plastic wings, the song humbly begins with a release of suppressed exhaustion, “On nights like these, I need relief. Spare me all the pageantry” fatigued from the corroding lack of honesty. The chorus beams with glamorous syncopation, sympathetically sermonizing the untold secrets of our pain of feeling less than. Wanting to save, but need saving.
Drained from a world of egomania, the short and sweet piece addresses resistance of heartbreak, burnout, and resentment while exploring hope and optimism for finding contentment and peace in the present. Perhaps even practicing themes of self-acceptance by learning to love who you are despite your imperfections, needs, and desires.
My wings may be plastic but they’re still wings.
