It has a feeling that it could suddenly bloom into something but instead patiently keeps its pace and acts as an appetiser for the rest of the album. The album opens with ‘I AM A FREE MAN I AM NOT A NUMBER’, a short introduction with swirling synths adding an ethereal depth to the track with some soft bass and a simple guitar motif.
But under the old adage of adapt and survive they did just that.īeneath a Steel Sky by Beneath a Steel Sky
It’s remarkable that the project even got off the ground let alone make a full length record. Made up of 6 people based in and around Glasgow, four of the members who had never met.
An atmospheric, instrumental post-rock outfit. Beneath a Steel Sky is a project born out of this situation. The one saving grace for the whole thing is that we live in an age of technology and that means that we can communicate, and collaborate musically that 10 years ago would have been impossible. So, suddenly many people, bored and frustrated of an unsettling and uncertain time needed to find a creative outlet. For many people in the creative field this is not just a 9 to 5 job it’s a way of life and gives many people a purpose. The entertainment industry, sadly, was one of the latter. As some people retreated to their country pads many others had their lives collapse around them. To paraphrase someone ‘we’re all in the same storm, just in different boats’ which perfectly sums up the situation we all found ourselves in during the COVID epidemic lockdown.