Elsewhere - Codependency
PREMIERE | ELSEWHERE DEBUT VIDEO FOR ‘CODEPENDENCY’
Boston-based power-pop new wave outfit Elsewhere premiere their new lyric video, entitled “Codependency,” today on Rawckus. From the band’s Multi-Man EP, “Condependency” has collected more than 200,000 streams on Spotify.
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Frontman Michael Aroian explains the song’s inspiration, saying, “Codependency is something that many of us experience. Oftentimes people can be in a destructive relationship, but are almost powerless to get out of it because they are enabling one another in some way be it via an addiction, poor mental health, immaturity, irresponsibility, or under-achievement. In this sense, they are trapped.”
Made up of Kevin Swaluk (bass), Adam Soucy (drums), and Michael Aroian (vocals, guitar), Elsewhere broke through in 1997, when they dropped Outbound, landing the band on College Music Journal’s Marathon and capturing the attention of major labels. The band followed with their Perception EP in 2001, and then in 2010 dropped 1981, which thrust them onto the international stage, receiving vast airplay and acclaim in Belgium, where they were featured in Rock Tribune Magazine, Germany, Denmark, Norway, UK, Italy, and the Czech Republic.
Describing their music as “prog leaning alt/power-pop new wave,” Elsewhere’s sound, influenced by Rush, The Police, Duran Duran, and The Sex Pistols, merges the visceral dynamism of punk with the spirit and innovation realized in prog-rock.
Aroian’s voice, a rich high tenor, saturates the lyrics with tight tangy tones traveling on deliciously stirring inflections full of intense focused resonance.
“Codependency” opens on shimmering tones flowing into gleaming potent guitars forming a smoothly muscular prog-rock melody flavored with punk oomph. Heavy rumbling drums and a chunky, throbbing bass line establish the infectious rhythm, as pulsing guitars ride overhead, filling the tune with edgy polished hues. The momentum of the harmonics imbues the song with glossy textures reminiscent of Rush, while angular timbres infuse punk-lite surface blushes.
Aroian’s voice, a rich high tenor, saturates the lyrics with tight tangy tones traveling on deliciously stirring inflections full of intense focused resonance. It’s a marvelously modulated voice, throwing a mandala of tasty sonic arcs across the music.
The video portrays the quagmire inherent in codependent relationships, where each party enables the other by means of sacrificing themselves on the altar of neediness. Such relationships soon become circular, forming a cycle of toxic enslavement.
“Codependency” is superbly fashioned, rife with intoxicating torrents of surging energy topped by the penetrating tones of Michael Aroian. Elsewhere lays it down with barbed flair and brawny gusto.
