Taste Test: Grey Watson parts from The Visions with ‘Spinning Wheels’
The folk-rock singer-songwriter observes existential feelings with his new song.
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When you hit your early 30s, things come into clearer focus, yet there’s an existential layer powdering on your life like fresh snow. You question every choice you make and whether those outward ripples could have been stopped. Feeling ill-fated as Greek mythological figure Sisyphus, folk-rock observer Grey Watson details the untying of his own psychological knots and searches for the meaning embedded within his soul. “Spinning Wheels” is gilded with gloom, bookending his time with the band known as The Visions, and his every step is coated in lead and seems to go nowhere. As the title suggests, he seems to stuck in place as the world rushes by him at a brisker and more ferocious rate. “Would you care / would you listen,” he crows, situating his own dread of an unimportant existence. In the final few frames, his voice evaporates as quickly as it came, and therein lies the destiny of our every one of our lives.
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