If Friday calls for a crying song, then Railroad Earth has delivered.
The Garden State-budded ensemble has released “Cameras.” The evocative new single unfurls honey-dipped coos as peaceful as a morning dove greeting the first light of a new day. On the new number, the band tapped guest vocalist Lindsay Lou, who accentuates the track with her harmonies, an ethereal touch that glints communal music.
The song’s opening meets measured strums and the arrival of lyrics: “Cameras on the ground/ Cameras in the air/ Cameras riding ‘round on drugs/ Cameras everywhere/ Cameras up on sticks/ Cameras flying on drones.” The song hits like a warning of Big Brother and the surveillance age, and could be the musical groan of George Orwell’s 1984 protagonist.
Instrumentally, the group uses its toolkit to evoke the essence of its message: wails from the fiddle and pedal steel, played over a gentle cascade of emotive acoustic tones. While the lyrics clearly function as a thought piece, the music amplifies the cautionary tone of its words and descriptions, which develop like a modern-day snapshot of a panoptic society.
“Cameras” follows the arrival of Railroad Earth’s previously released single “Everything Keeps Chaingin’,” featuring Greensky Bluegrass’ Paul Hoffman. Read more about the previously dropped single here.
Stream “Camera” now. For more on Railroad Earth, visit their official website.
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