quilium – climatoGRAFIQ
Seattle has always been a city that breathes new life into the music scene, and the Emerald City’s, quilium, certainly brings a refreshing take on psychedelia and electronica. quilium’s fiercely unique, 26-song album, climatoGRAFIQ, is chock-full of riveting, intense musicality and meaningful lyrics about topics like accountability and environmental disillusionment. Notably, track three, “tenaCITY” has a booming 808 bass drum and a peculiar piano trill that goes from pianissimo to very hard. Regarding the lyrical content of “tenaCITY,” quilium states: “The building and maintenance of cities is an enormous testament to our tenacity and herculean effort to reshape our world… [A]ny future society that will actually survive will be forced to grapple with the current dichotomy between humans and nature causing a climate collapse.” Song five, “CATwash,” is a parody to Rose Royce’s “Carwash.” Though the song is a parody, some very serious lyricism comes when quilium[...]