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When you search up the name ‘Bukowski’, the author and poet Charles Bukowski would be the number one result but, alongside that should be the up and coming pop punk band from Melbourne, Australia. With hard hitting tracks comes more somber ones just like the works of Mr. Bukowski himself. And, to put him to the side and placing the attraction and attention onto the band Bukowski themselves, they’ve just released a new track titled ‘Elevator Song’ and the moment you turn it on your nearly whiplashed into ‘Peripheral Vision’ by Turnover and for a wide stretch ‘The Night I Drove Alone’ by Citizen. The song as a whole is a nostalgic feel and demands to have a true first listen whether, it’s putting in your headphones and closing your eyes to become encapsulated by it, like I did or blasting it in your car with your windows down and doing the little hand wave through the wind. When Bukowski said they were putting out a new song, I didn’t expect to fall back into a cloud of nothingness in the sense that this song makes me feel like nothing really matters because it allows to be felt and heard in a way that is almost indescribable.
Initial reactions were that this band was A. absolutely insane for creating something so somber yet so enchanting and B. they’re putting me out of my poetic work with lines such as “when you spoke those words with your tongue was it pretense” and “could you spend a day in my bones just to feel it?” In times like this when we are all in excessive emotional turmoil, being able to find peace and solace in a track such as this one is more than what is needed. Within ‘Elevator Song’ it’s a hazy dreamy feel that makes you yearn for something that you once had, whether that is something the band intended to do or not, it is the emotion that is pulled through the lyrics and melodies. To take a second and lean back into the song, I imagine the music video for this to be kids running through places that were important to them growing up and with each turn of the camera, they are getting older and having to go through the lessons of life and love but with a grainy view of the lens and somehow it fits perfectly with the life as we know it now. Whether this is your first time listening to the band or not, I can guarantee that this won't be the last song you hear from them and you should expect more to come.
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