Balance Disorder

by Syzygy

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The third single from the upcoming debut album from Melbourne Synth-pop duo SYZYGY is “Balance Disorder”. Lyrically conceived from researching the escalator effect, a phenomenon where, upon stepping onto a broken escalator, we experience a strange sensation of imbalance despite our full awareness that the escalator is not moving and is not going to move.

We became struck by the idea that what causes this is a dissociation between the cognitive and motor functions of the brain. We are aware that the escalator is broken, however our bodies react, recalling previous learned experience of the escalator in motion.

It felt like a fitting metaphor for those times when you know what you are about to do is the exact wrong thing and yet, in an almost an out of body experience - you find you can’t stop yourself from doing that wrong thing, reliving past mistakes over and over again.

Musically it's energetic and pure pop. The high pitched and twilling synth arpeggios frame a simple and direct structure. The vocals flick and slide from line to line, weaving constantly around the synths. It’s catchy and dance worthy as it tries to evoke feelings of frantic yet stilted movement.

The album Anchor and Adjust is out October 14th
pre-order now: syzygysynthpop.bandcamp.com/album/anchor-and-adjust

lyrics

Turn to modified behaviour
Fighting that external threat
Of perceived fear of failure
To our now shared stable stance
You anticipate disaster
Reacting to past
To stabilise our posture
I comply you justify
Aware of what we know
While unconscious of what we do
We need the change to move forward
I know we’re stationary
Instead we choose to indulge
Your innate drive to create
An illusion of self motion
Fear of catastrophe

Misleading narratives
Written desperate to appease
Aware of what we know
While unconscious of what we do
It’s not enough
To just follow
The same mistakes
We escalate

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released September 23, 2022
Music by Syzygy
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Julian Cue
Cover art by Anita Shao

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