Dangerpop

By Jessica Hart

I learned some new terms today listening to today’s new music!!!

I introduce to you, Kansas City’s shoegaze/Dangerpop (that’s the new term!) band RxGhost, that has released a music video for their single, “Candles”, off their new album, “Scaffolding.”

Josh Thomas, the Frontman of RxGhost, says. “Candles' is about how it's important to still try to do interesting things and strive for change, even in a world where the super rich have rigged the system. If you keep up with public policy and government handouts, it's hard to feel like the system isn't rigged for the investment class. Conservatives act like poor people are welfare queens, while ignoring that the ultra wealthy get more handouts than anyone. The middle class is getting fucked by the ultra rich, and it's been obvious for a long time. They have a system set up to get the left and right wing fighting each other, while quietly siphoning all the resources out of the system and hoarding it…”

Video director Matthew Dunehoo (@marychickensoup) explains, "With 'Candles' I was eager to embrace and flesh out the metaphor of the candle for the spirit, and the volatile experience of trying to keep it together while burning in spite of the elements. The pace of the song itself seems to always hover right before breaking apart, at the repeated mantra of the "main character" expressing the feeling of being frayed, stretched thin, flickering between stability and losing it when considering a ton of pointless routine shit.

Find more from RxGhost HERE