In Blue Dreams, the latest novella by Oliver Marson we are presented with a picture of how day-to-day work and business can result to boredom and disappointment in life. Right from the start, the artist originally from London, brings the audience to a surrealistic world with shimmering guitars and depressive bassline performing retro-pop music, and still making wonderful and seeing through dreariness of the modern workflow totalitarianism. Sacrificial paychecks burning up, fantasies of leaving it all behind, these are things more people can personally identify with today.
But the true genius in “Blue Dreams” is the fact that Marson learned how to incorporate the haunting feeling of the track and maintain a musical hook at the same time. The catchy melodies are both invites in while the crunching guitar riffs are the sneaky drug, and the sweet dulcet tones are in direct contrast to the rallying cry of “why did I choose this life?” The rest of The Office and all its weird, mechanical quirks dissolve into thin air, but before we’re left entirely empty, we get a crumb of truth; a fleeting glimpse of the soul that still sits somewhere buried within all of us: a desire to escape monotony and seek purpose in a world that values the opposite.
