Hirons – Vertigo
Hirons—the project of British-American songwriter Jenny Hirons—releases “Vertigo,” the final single from her forthcoming debut EP, Future Perfect, out this Friday via Western Vinyl.
Following last month’s “captivating” (KLOF Mag) single, “The Rabbit Hole,” album opener “Vertigo” finds Hirons contemplating a past relationship. On the song’s chorus she sings using vertigo symptoms as a metaphor: “Oh it goes, it spins, you’re losing balance, horizons crash again // Oh it goes, focus and visualize steady mind // Oh it goes, it spins, the walls are racing, an ocean swells within // Oh it goes, loosening crystalized binds.”
Commenting on the song, Hirons says: “This song is about the highs and lows of an unhealthy relationship. It’s about willingly losing yourself in the moment and clinging to hope to postpone the inevitable downfall. I also suffer from bouts of vertigo and enjoyed the parallel language relating to both experiences.”
On Future Perfect, Hirons presents five muted pop tracks recalling Sakamoto and Hosono, Bowie and Eno, conjuring pop fantasy and confronting reality with bright-eyed steeliness. Upon listening, a multiprismatic picture of life viewed from all points in time emerges—a child imagines adulthood, an adult returns to autonomy, and ultimately, a voice from another place looks back on a child’s fantasies of the future. The effect of these songs is anything but ponderous, however. Hope, aspiration, and overcoming are the takeaways, and musically, the tone is a reflection of the artist herself — wry, cerebral, poised, and entirely charming.
Hirons cites Astor Piazzolla, the Beach Boys, Elliot Smith, Deerhoof, and Rachmaninoff as musical influences. Hirons is also a deeply accomplished visual artist and designer. The product of several years of tinkering, Future Perfect is also a breakup EP, an unemployment EP, an uncertain future EP. Having now made it out into the world, Hirons looks back to a time when “music was the economy of our hearts”, and forward to a future allowed to shape itself however it may be, “carried home in all directions.”
Hirons Tour Dates:
Sun. Nov. 9 – Pasadena, CA @ Healing Force of the Universe
Sun. Nov. 23 – El Cerrito, CA @ Little Hill Lounge
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