A gripping rock sound combines with sincere laments on current harsh realities within “Thoughts & Prayers,” a track from Widows Gold. The California-based act has caught our ears in the past with cuts like “Nothing Can Break Me” and “Throw It Away,” and “Thoughts & Prayers” continue their knack for deeply affecting rockers with introspective thematic relevance.
“Wash your hands with thoughts and prayers, but they’re already stained,” Madeline Star’s compelling vocals let out amidst escalating guitar tones. Likely references thereafter to world leaders — “put our lives in their hands,” — and their tendency for manipulation and destruction is particularly poignant. “It’s all a ruse,” the vocals lament thereafter. Throughout the memorable production, Widows Gold craft a resonating rock success, which they describe as “a condolence as hopeless as the atrocities it aims to silence. This track grieves the harsh reality in which we live. Those appointed to protect are the very hands strangling your rights.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
