The New Perspective Review of ‘The Infinite Definitive’
Unknown Component releases ninth indie album
By Josh DeGrasse-Baumann
Keith Lynch, better known as Unknown Component, released his ninth independent album Oct. 12.
“The Infinite Definitive” features nearly 43 minutes of music which are all due to the hard work of Lynch, who does everything from playing each instrument to recording and promoting the album himself.
The album opens with “Moving Out of Frame” which seems to tell of the differences between one mind and another and the inability to describe the two.
The album progresses with somewhat down, but not depressing, lyrics and tones. Instead, the album offers advice and good intentions, all with an underlying theme of something missing.
“The leaves are changing in the trees, rain is falling in the sea, somewhere someone makes believe / everything is meant to be, I don’t know what’s in between all the spaces and the seams, but I know I’ll / always dream and that this is all I need,” describes the chorus of “A Heavy Heart or an Empty Stomach,” the fourth track on the album.
The first half of the album ends with “The Experience of Understanding” in which the singer pleads out of desperation, describing how every action taken creates more uncertainty and, ultimately, deciding that uncertainty needs to be accepted, explaining that “doubt is a method of survival”.
The second half of the album progresses towards a more upbeat, though uncertain, message with tracks like “When the Illusion is What it Seems” seeming to suggest uncertainty and oddity are, in fact, natural.
“The Introduction is Arriving” describes a very average life with the sole purpose of being lived, but being lived anyway. The chorus tells of a martyr wandering alone not really being worth a whole lot.
As the album winds down, the lyrics focus on finding meaning by oneself, despite uncertainty. Ultimately, “The Infinite Definitive” ends with uncertainty.
“The feeling of a century, the movement in your mind, the puzzle is still incomplete, the honesty of time / Drawing down and passing by, the scenery is light, the silhouetted socialite without an alibi,” opens “Electric Dissolution,” the album’s final track.
Whether or not the album provides an ultimate truth will, ultimately, be determined by the listener. The album itself, however, is a success either way.
Read more at The New Perspective: http://thedigitalnp.com/2010/10/26/unknown-component-releases-ninth-indie-album/#ixzz13XC6b49G