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The New Believers are a new band. So new in fact, I couldn’t come up with a list of band members off the Internet, and they only have one song posted on their Myspace page. Lucky for them, that song, “You’re Free To Do As We Tell You (Television)” is off to a pretty good start.
The track begins slowly. First guitar, then the drums join in, and then comes the deep, English-accented voice of the lead singer and a chorus of “whoa” in the background. The steady pace draws the listener into the song as the tempo and emotion builds. Then suddenly, before you know it, the tempo changes entirely and really speeds up. By the time the next chorus comes around, the pace slows again. This song continually switches between mosh-ready beats to softer guitar chords in the blink of an eye. The instrumentation itself is not really groundbreaking, and similar songs have certainly been done before, but this one switches up the music enough to keep it interesting all the same.
Lyrically, this track is all about desperation and frustration with the world. The singer constantly declares “Television clouds my life and my mind” and vocalizes the unhappy realization that he lives “in another fake nation” full of “pointless frustrations.” Sure, the lyrics get a little repetitive at points, but the urging for everyone to clear their minds and to not become brainwashed can only be a good reminder for today’s propaganda-saturated society.
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