Nikki n' The Pathos

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Nikki n' The PathosIndependent rock and classical music written by Nicole Portley in Portland, OregonSea of Ideals, released 05 May 20191. Satellite2. Save Our Souls (Will Anybody?)3. Little Miss Pacific Northwest4. Palm Reader5. Like a Fish6. Metal Heart7. Frivolous8. Moment9. Crystal Cage10. WaveSea of Ideals is a collection of musings on the concept of identity delivered through a medium of progressive rock interspersed with moments of electro pop, 90s alt-rock, jazz, and soul. The album takes its name from the following lyrics included in the final track, "Wave" — "we are swimming in a sea of ideals, this is a battle of ideas, we must go swimming, but some of us are drowning." A recurring theme in this album is that of resentment cultivated through life in the age of identity—i.e., the contemporary identity politics era of US history, during which we have engaged in examination of our composite individual identities, most of us finding both cause to be resentful of others, and cause to be resented by others. Through this process we have become aware of our great interdependence and impact upon one another: we have jointly created and "swim" together in a collective "sea." Simultaneously, we have been made painfully aware of the great inequalities between the drama's participants: we have distinguished the aspects of identity that enable swimming, and those that increase the risk of drowning.Individual tracks of Sea of Ideals alternatingly give voice to aggrieved perspectives (those of women towards men in "Like a Fish" and "Crystal Cage," and of a social traditionalist eclipsed by modernists in "Frivolous") and to perspectives of those targeted by others' grievances (the global northerner faced with responsibility for subjugation of the global south in "Palm Reader" and "Wave"). Ultimately, the protagonist finds this inner journey of the resentful self chasing the tail of the resented self to provoke its own type of drowning, a drowning of a spiritual nature juxtaposed in "Wave" with the physical drowning of those at the bottom of the social hierarchy. While not at all equivalent with the injustice of actual, physical drowning, the spiritual drowning of the conflicted modern individual is one that also impedes fruitful swimming.Interspersed among the songs carrying the central theme are others whose message are in more tangential orbit around the concept of identity. "Little Miss Pacific Northwest" presents a vignette of a regional personality archetype. "Save Our Souls (Will Anybody?)" explores the role of geopolitics in drawing the lines of identity among two on-again, off-again nations. "Metal Heart" pokes fun at recent concern in the media about the role of technology in satisfying men's sexual needs (and precluding the need for a relationship with an actual woman) in positing that a robot could someday serve as the perfect lover for a female sufferer of split personality disorder. And "Moment" examines America's gun problem with a French language delivery, evoking the Tocquevillian outsider-observer of national identity.

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