For reasons that should prove obvious to anyone who has drawn a breath so far this year, a lot of the music we’ve been vibing to in this blessed scum-gagged 2023 has projected a bit of an escapist, fantasy-fueled daydreamer mood. But for Sculpture Club, there’s value in looking inward, facing the cold realities of self and taking a moment to understand just why we’re feeling all the things we’re feeling. And to answer an age-old question: “Am I cursed or am I hexed?”
The project from Choir Boy’s Chaz Costello confronts that very question in the appropriately titled “Cursed or Hexed,” a spirited new post-whatever single that hit the streams this past Friday (July 21) via Born Losers Records. “Cursed or Hexed” also arrives via a single-shot crafts time video, which can be viewed below.
“When I first wrote these songs I was in a place with music where I was overthinking everything and shooting myself in the foot,” admits Costello. “It was mid pandemic and all I had was time to analyze everything I had ever done or said or created. So to counteract I tried to turn my brain off or set simple parameters for the music and just try to tap into the feeling. What the songs actually felt like and following that rather than pushing them into what they ‘should’ feel like.”
Costello adds: “The lyrics came from a joke I was making about myself and all my ‘impeccable’ music tastes and past lives I’ve had. But in doing that I realized how fickle your personality can be at any given moment & how that might be perceived. If that was acceptable, or how much of personality / identity you can ‘let” bleed into each other. That thought process can really send you into a bad spiral if you let it. You start losing yourself in trying to identify yourself. You really start to feel like you’re cursed. But ultimately you have to accept it and enjoy it. There’s nothing else you can do. A concept I’m still getting used to.”
Glide with Sculpture Club to find all the answers you’ve kept from yourself, and check out the band’s upcoming tour run with Soft Kill.
Sculpture Club Live Dates 2023:
July 25: Louisville, KY – Rosetta Chapel
July 26: Chicago, IL – New Rose
July 27: Detroit, MI – Outer Limits*
July 28: Colombus, OH – Woodlands*
July 29: Washington, DC – Black Cat*
July 30: Philadelphia, PA – Silk City
July 31: Richmond, VA – Banditos
August 1: Asheville, NC – Static Age Records
August 3: Gainesville, FL – Portal 4 Records
August 5: New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa
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