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How 'Release Your Problems' Made Me Feel

A written emotional roller coaster through an electronica song.

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So here you are, looking for new music to listen to, much like I was, and you stumble across this Australian Electronica Musician who goes by the name of "Chet Faker". If you chose to give him a shot, you'll start hearing a different vibe than you might have heard before. It's similar to the feeling of sitting in a coffee shop and just sort of relaxing. He's got a few songs who's titles are going to stand out to you, like "Cigarettes and Loneliness" and "Talk is Cheap". Titles like these have a tendency to get you thinking long before you've pressed play and a lesser known song off his album "Built on Glass" is no different.

"Release Your Problems" is actually the first song off of the album and really prepares you for a sort of spiritual journey that lasts the entirety of 12 songs. You're prompted to release your problems, and that's the feeling that you get very early on in the song. There's this smooth essence brought on by the use of what sounds like a keyboard. The keyboard is played until it starts to sound reminiscent of a lullaby or something of the sort and makes you feel like you're near a baby's crib. Family is around, people you trust. You've got nothing to worry about. Your world is free of problems.

Then, not long after, a scary robotic sound introduces itself. It sneaks up on you, and reminds you that you do have problems. Everything isn't as simple and great as you thought. As these uncomfortable sounds persist, a panic ensues within you. "What's going on?" you being to wonder. Then you hear the sound of the air being sucked out of the room and most likely your lungs, too. In the middle of your panic, everything goes quiet. No more sound. We've reached dead silence. One to two of the longest seconds you've experienced in a long time.

With nothing left but despair, you hear Chet Faker's warm, comforting voice and all seems to be right with the world once more. As he joins you and you pay closer attention to his words, you realize that Chet is releasing his own problems. He's venting to the wind, just like you would have been, except this time, he's here with you. You begin to worry for him, but you realize that you're here to help him the same way he's here to help you. You're comforted by the fact that you don't have to face any of your problems alone, but you do have to face them, just like Faker has so bravely done, with the public watching. Things are all making sense, and then you hear the title of the song "Release Your Problems, Release Your Problems, Release Your problems" but sang by not just one, but rather multiple voices. This is a chorus of Chet Fakers, but feels as if now you're going into the rough of your problems with a team of people ready to help you get past anything that might have been troubling you.

The passion that Faker, or Nicholas James Murphy, his birth name, emits is something that shows that he and you have finally gotten out from under your struggles, and that is what truly makes "Release Your Problems" the soothing anthem that it is.


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