It is our pleasure to debut Éyal Hai's new music video, "Failure Meditation Attempts".

After intriguing about eleven-thousand YouTubers with his debut music video, Éyal Hai returns with another visual sensation paired with another track from the upcoming record "Practicing Catharsis". Like the previous song, it features a guest vocalist. Lynette Williams, the singer in question, does a great job of balancing the song's transition in tone from a childlike sing-along to a moody art-rock setting. Really, after the first 25 seconds, it sounds like Raffi turning into Radiohead. Williams enhances the chain-of-thought style lyrics with angst and longing where appropriate. As the title would suggest, the narrator of the song is having difficulty meditating, or more simply, relaxing. "Breathe in / Breathe out / Just let it go / There's nothing you can do," is the narrator's self-directed plea; these words are delivered in the innocent, childlike section. However, this is dramatically followed by an introspective atmosphere of crying vocals and pounding drums. It is here that Williams exclaims, "Who am I kidding / I'm incapable of winning." This tension between the naïve optimism of the quiet sections and the self-doubt that plaques the louder sections is what gives this song its strength. It's the like the kind of conversation we all have in our heads, but played out loud in the form of a tightly knit, finely crafted tune.

Musically, the introduction employs a simple root to fifth bass figure commonly used in country and folk music. This figure is played in three four, a waltz time signature, on a single acoustic guitar. It's a very simple arrangement to be sure; that's precisely why it contrasts so nicely with the B-section where extended chords glisten and then stab on each beat of the measure. This is soon joined by distorted electric guitar and a triumphant vocal refrain; by this time the familiar acoustic guitar figure appears again and the cycle begins anew. It's interesting for a song to be composed in such a cyclical manner where each section stems from the last. I'm not sure if there is any intent behind this structure, but if I were to guess I'd say it represents the recurrence of the thoughts of the narrator. That is to say, the narrator is perpetually haunted by the same thoughts over and over again, and this is mirrored by the music.

In an era of music where so few risks are taken, so few genres traversed, and adherence to tradition is commonplace, it's refreshing to see the worlds of jazz, alternative rock, electronic music, and artsy video production collide. This may be the kind of music for only hardcore music aficionados, but I await the day that the public isn't so fickle with their taste and delves into exciting music such as this.

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