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Doom

by Japes

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Doom opens with bubbled synthesizer & stuttered drums, before the heel turn of harsh noise underpinned by deep rhythmic bass and Kelly’s repeated refrain of “fall into the pile with the rest of us.”

“Doom is really about the feeling that nothing matters,” says Kelly. “The realisation that we are just tiny cogs in a terrible machine, it's a common feeling to come to in your early 20’s. You find out the world is a darker place than you could have ever imagined, having had the naivety of childhood stripped away and being faced with the pressure of having to have direction in your life.”

“The first demo (that would become Doom) came to be while Aotearoa was in the second lockdown in 2021, which was a really fair enough time to be having an existential crisis. It was particularly turbulent for me and found a lot of peace in writing music that was more dark and distorted. I’ve always been inspired by science fiction, the possibilities of the other and the wildly different ways our world could be structured, and I think a bit of this leaked into the song."

Doom was co-produced by Bevan Smith (Introverted Dancefloor, Glass Vaults), with the collaboration aided by NZ on Air Music’s New Music Development fund. “I brought Bevan a raw demo of a bunch of ideas and bit by bit we pieced it together, with Bevan adding the drums and big guitar bits at the end. We kept a lot of the really raw weird sounds and added lots of distortion. It was the first song we finished, and from that I drew so much inspiration for writing the rest of the EP.”

Doom is accompanied by an animated visualiser made by Otis Rayner. “I wanted the visuals to be a little bit silly,” says Kelly. “The song isn't meant to be taken completely seriously, but still deals with the themes of existentialism. People often describe difficult feelings (specifically depression) as “the black dog” and I find it a good way to think about things, so I wanted to have that in there as well. It’s all hand-drawn loop animations that took him hours and hours to complete."

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released March 20, 2024
All songs co-produced by Mia Kelly and Bevan Smith
All songs written by Mia Kelly
Mixed and Mastered by Bevan Smith
Artwork by Otis Rayner

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Pōneke-based dream-pop artist

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