Working a corporate job can feel suffocating. There are the unwritten rules of behaviour that many find restrictive, there is the unclarity of purpose and the subtle impact about how we think about ourselves and the world.
Michey Tree explores such themes in her song Floating Tree. She sings, “Corrupt and corporate with suits and ties / Corrupt and corporate, they tell you lies.”
Such haziness is conveyed musically. There is a chorus-echo effect on the guitar, the vocal delivery trails at the end of sentences. Emotionally, there is drunkenness in Floating House; as if someone is struggling to somehow rise above it all.
This muted desperation really comes across performance wise. This is a beautiful track, despite or perhaps because of the darkness. There is a real human quality in this song, a proper truthfulness.
Review by Glenn Robinson
