Gravity has a sound, and it’s called “The Void” by Tidal Water. No, not the gravity that pins you to your seat in a physics lecture. This is the gravity of lives unseen, voices swallowed by silence, the weight of a world that too often prefers to look away. Led by Martin Hovden, a conjurer of slow-burning rock anthems from Oslo, this track is not for the faint-hearted, nor for those seeking a casual listen. “The Void” drags you in — willingly or not — into the margins of existence, where society’s neglected take refuge.
The sonic landscape, enriched by co-producer Txai Fernando’s keys and percussion, leans into the unfamiliar. There’s a restless energy, an almost suffocating push-and-pull that mirrors the very pain and invisibility the song attempts to articulate. Imagine if you could hear a scream ricocheting through the empty corridors of a long-forgotten building; this is that scream, but dressed up in the rich timbre of Brazilian instrumental styles by Renato Anesi. Jims Lehner’s drumming doesn’t merely keep time; it taunts it, stretching moments to their breaking point, while Markus Matland’s keyboards layer textures as if they are trying to coax ghosts out of hiding.
At the core of “The Void” is a raw insistence — it forces you to recognize the people you’d rather walk past, to feel the uncomfortable presence of those who live on society’s fringes. There’s no sugarcoating here. The lyrics confront, they question, and at times, they even accuse. The message: stop looking away.
It’s as if Hovden and his collective of sound architects are building a bridge not just from Norway to Brazil, but from apathy to empathy. If their upcoming album “Polarity” carries even a fraction of this weight, it might just shift some tectonic plates in the soul.
Who knew that a song could make you stare into the abyss… and see something staring back?
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