{"id":974445,"date":"2020-01-15T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T16:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=937953"},"modified":"2020-01-15T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T16:21:30","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-westerman-blue-comanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-westerman-blue-comanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Westerman, \u2018Blue Comanche\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate change activism reached an apex over the last half-decade, and its urgency can be felt all over music, from the damning last words in ANOHNI\u2019s \u201c4 Degrees\u201d<\/a> to the apocalyptic queen\u2019s wave of Lana Del Rey\u2019s \u201cThe Greatest,\u201d<\/a> bidding adieu to Los Angeles as it turns to ash in real time. The 1975 brought on Greta Thunberg for the latest version<\/a> of their self-titled track, calling for rebellion in the face of crisis.<\/p>\n

Will Westerman<\/a>\u2019s contemplative new song, \u201cBlue Comanche,\u201d makes space for grief amidst imminent disaster. Originally a folk artist, the London musician has spent the past few years crafting elegant pop songs full of self-interrogation. But here, he allows himself to fantasize, stretching out a moment of resigned acceptance at what the planet\u2019s come to. \u201cI am nearly there, cyborg\/Ready to take your course,\u201d he sighs over a rippling guitar. He mourns the trees that have been diminished to acorns, and imagines walking through blue corn fields at sunset.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a Luddite, I don\u2019t think we should go back to the Stone Age or anything, but there\u2019s still something profoundly sad about what\u2019s being lost,\u201d Westerman said in a statement released with the single, referencing \u201cthe inevitability of environmental loss\u201d in a modernized world. \u201cBlue Comanche\u201d never loses sight of these dire circumstances, even as it takes on a starry-eyed wonder towards the world that\u2019s been lost. Alien synths, Peter Gabriel flutes and a humming bass line bolster up Westerman\u2019s layered vocals, as he repeats the insistent yet impossible refrain: \u201cTurn back around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Climate change activism reached an apex over the last half-decade, and its urgency can be felt all over music, from the damning last words in ANOHNI\u2019s \u201c4 Degrees\u201d to the apocalyptic queen\u2019s wave of Lana Del Rey\u2019s \u201cThe Greatest,\u201d bidding adieu to Los Angeles as it turns to ash in real time. The 1975 brought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 22:19:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}