I’m attending Coachella for the first time this year, but before I do I get to experience “3 Days in the Desert” with FAIMKILLS.
“Three Days In The Desert” [DOWNLOAD]
Upon my first listen of the record I am put off. I can hear the turmoil of a very personal relationship. I can hear the regret. I can hear nostalgia. I hear the anger. I hear despair. But I’m left to deal with these emotions on my own. The Coachella-based tracks don’t give me instructions to dance, FAIM isn’t convincing me of how much better his life experience is than mines. He’s venting.
Then I watched the Youtube video of FAIM explaining the project. He reveals that he made the record to express himself, and he released it for like-minds to relate. However that simple answer doesn’t credit the artistic merit of the work, which is very much present. There are raps painted over instrumentals that are not based in hip hop. Prose is manipulated into song to describe actual events—actual feelings. To me, this record shows the compartmentalized emotions of a writer, there are moments of screaming rage/hurt/desire, but those moments do not taint the positive memories. Though I cannot relate to Coachella, or the break-up itself, I can relate to the helpless and upsetting feeling that comes when something thought to last forever, or something I wasn’t finished enjoying, comes to a halt.
“3 Days in the Desert” implies the temporary/permanent essence of a mirage: when you think it’s about anger it’s about love and when you think it’s about pain, it’s about reminiscence. And then in eighteen minutes, its gone. Perhaps like FAIMKILLS’ relationship…but most certainly, like LIFE.
MAKE LOVE & DO WORK,
~Sondria
Posted on January 23, 2012
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