Blasé Lux - The Escape Theory (EP)

"The Escape Theory" begins on a poignantly vulnerable note, immediately I found myself not only grooving to his funky electronica but moved emotionally by his words on the portion of "Time / Dissociation." Nobody wants to sit around wasting their life away, yet some of us do; I know I'm guilty of it. Those problems we deal with, those deep wounds that, for a lot of us, I included, reopened, particularly at the beginning of COVID like Blasé here. His verbiage & the soft-mannered tonality of his vocal textures on this record are extra silky, but it's these lyrics that just hit all the right chords in your body; you know they were all pulled from a real place. In the 2nd half, the dissociation phase detaches almost gracefully from his reality; the memories are slipping through his fingers like the sand from an hourglass. Still, he's too far gone at this point to pay any attention, lost in his own intoxicating thoughts.

The 1st single off this EP, "Escapism," we reviewed prior to this release, is a very subtle groove that finds Lux partying the pain away, leaving his woes & fears at the door cause he won't be needing them for where he's headed to after the music leaves him in a trance. His production work on this project is intriguing, to say the least; the electronica throughout gives it this futuristic sound which is the perfect foundation for him to express how he has none. Sure he has all these faces at him, but not even he knows who he is; he's hesitant to discover what may lie on the other side of his fear. He has left the party & didn't forget his fears at the door. It's melancholy, to say the least having to watch your dreams dissipate; I'm sure that brought about a lot of nightmares.

Here we get some R&B mixed with some subtle Funk & electronica; the instrumentation on here is impeccable 564. He's anxious to see "What's Next" for him on this journey of his. He just wants to do him, without a care in the world for how he may be perceived; he's sick of having to explain his actions to people when we're all pretty much all headed towards the same destination in life, some just approaching it faster than others. "Living In My Head" finds him flexing his mental dexterity; he'd much instead be trapped inside & infatuated with whatever romanticized images in his mind he refuses to dismantle than to experience one more ounce of reality.

What's the point in dreaming if those dreams may never come to fruition? It has to be tough, especially as an artist when you know what you have is something special, yet you don't really feel it going anywhere. It seems to be stagnant, which can make you question everything that may play a factor in why that is. There's no other choice he has then to "Ride Away" on his bike into the sunset, which can be seen as the light at the end of the tunnel for him. All his fears & doubts, personal issues left behind where they belong to make way for anything better that's sure to replace it all. Let's just hope music continues to be his escape but understand that he's forever escaping himself in his doing so.