Taste Test: The Hollow Ends transport back to 1930s carnival with new song, ‘What’
The folk band offer up a dreadfully unsettling time warp.
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The carnival has become a signature playground for sinister mechanics of dark human psychology. Think Dean Koontz’s The Funhouse, American Horror Story‘s “Freak Show” and IT. We don’t know exactly why, but such settings make most of us quite uncomfortable. Singer-songwriter Zachary Schwartz, of The Hollow Ends, unearths that subtle unnerving feeling with a new song. “What” whips around a paint-chipped carousel, the nearby carnival-goers distorted into ghastly, shape-shifting creatures. “Oh, my, oh / Which way do I go,” Schwartz sings, bobbing his head in the cotton-candy-scented wind. It’s only slightly off-kilter, the metallic, stringy underpinnings eerily sharp enough to cut your skin, and that’s what makes it even more frightening. Something lurks in the shadows, and it’ll pounce when you least expect it.
“What” leads into a new project called The EP II, expected everywhere December 7.
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