“Sticks and stones build my home and all the faces I have known,” Meg Myers sings on “Tourniquet,” the third song from her recent release, Take Me To The Disco. The song features an sorrow driven atmosphere, finding Myers swallowing her pain to bring a sense of relief. Myers comments on the thematic elements within the track, “It is expressing a lot of pain. For whatever reason I had a really tough life and luckily I’ve had success at changing that around in a lot of ways. I think it always feels good to express, it is therapeutic.”
Even with the discomfort of her life, the singer has found a way to bring a positive mindset to the surrounding world, commenting how she went deeper in herself on this record to find a positive light. “I’ve gotten to a place where it all feels like a journey now. I’ve been in the present and that’s all we ever have,” Myers reflects on her growth between this release and her previous, Sorry. Yet still, Myers brings to light her complex emotional landscape with a swaying grace. The title-track and opener to the record features a solemn piano line behind Myers, establishing the tranquil yet melancholic emotional bleakness that fills the other 11 tracks following.
“Numb” is louder, having a more suffocating mix with Myers vocal lines cutting through the thick atmosphere. The song’s narrative is established perfectly within the music video, directed by Clara Aranovich. “I needed to work with her. I have visual ideas all the time but collaborating with someone is incredible if you work with the right people. She really got the dark side of me, while also getting the tongue in cheek side of me as well,” Myers comments about the video. The chorus finds Myers confidently displaying her apathy, even despising how incredibly inhuman she feels. It’s a dashing display of the musician’s ability to wind an abrasive atmosphere within an intimate, vulnerable room of emotion.
Take Me To The Disco is a human experience displayed within the narrative of Myers constant journey onward. “I’m Not Sorry” finds the singer in a retrospect, digging through memories and tearing them down. The middle of the song explodes with Myers most dominating vocal presence to date, unleashing the song in a whirlwind of a cathartic breakdown. “I had this revelation a year ago that I tore down and I’ve been rebuilding myself. I needed to tear it all out down and realize that I’m not nothing, but kind of. I’m all energy and the way I’ve been perceiving things can change and rewire my brain” Myers says about her experience writing the record. With tracks like “I’m Not Sorry” and “The Death Of Me” showing this intense process of tearing walls down, Meg Myers is establishing her triumph within a sonic sphere of punchy pop songs.
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