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When the Creation Can Consume the Creator

In “Amethyst Cameo,” genre-nomad Pocket Lint crafts a sonic landscape that could be described as “Pop Noir” – an immediate throwback to 80s synth-driven tunes that you might hear at a cool London bar. The track opens with an elegant swell of synthesiser violin before abruptly diving into an insistent beat. Instantly, you get the dark thematic drive underlying a very British, catchy veneer. Pocket Lint and co-producer Adam at Deluxe Mixing navigate eclectic sounds and unexpected detours with quite the structural precision.

Lyrically, the track captures a kind of fixation of the artist, the sculptor, who focuses on “tiny dunes of shimmering dust” and stone “the colour of Liz Taylor’s eyes.” The narrative reveals a deeper, unsettling devotion: “I will carve you in myself.” There is a seeming juxtaposition – the tangibly sensual “cold white skin” against what sounds like the desperation of the protagonist losing themselves to “abstract shapes” and shimmering dust. The opening layering of spoken-word over the sung repetition of the word “she” is a winner, and true to the song’s clear theme: obsession. As what should be a focal point of Pocket Lint’s Wunderkammer album, the track is an exploration of how creation might ultimately consume the creator. 

The question that lingers: 

Does the act of immortalising a muse in art forever trap the subject?… 

or does it permanently ensnare the artist? 

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–Stephen Choi for Up and Comers