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Doldrums “Blow Away”

Airick Woodhead spends the majority of The Air Conditioned Nightmare, his second album under the name Doldrums, wondering why he feels so ill at ease in situations that are designed to be comfortable. It’s not so much an attack on modernity as it is a meditation on anxiety and distrust of the mundane. “Blow Away,” a song that seems like an obvious radio single to me but is for some reason not being promoted at all, provides the thematic center of the record. It’s essentially a song about feeling weirded out by comforts, whether they’re sexual, material, or mindless. I don’t totally agree with the point of view in the song, but I understand it. It’s paranoia, really – this constant feeling that anything that feels good must be some sort of trap. But what really makes this song work on a thematic level is that while Woodhead is yearning for some sort of authentic experience, he seems to have no idea what that experience could be like. And maybe that’s a trap too?

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