The Cruise to the End of the World
A window into the mind of The Famous Daxx, indulge yourself in her vision.
Each track unfolds as a microcosm, capturing the end of the world as we know it and the impact on us all as we journey toward it…
“The Cruise to the End of the World” is a 15-minute concept EP, recorded as one continuous piece of music.
“Congratulations, this is it!” welcomes the captain.
As the ship begins to roll across the waves, the driving guitar riffs start you on the journey to the end of the world…
So please, try to relax!
Intro
Welcomed by the captain of the cruise ship, you make your way aboard. Who will be joining you on your journey – a pet, a spouse or perhaps a shrink? Whichever seems most appropriate, as long as you’ve left any offspring behind, because this cruise is not suitable for young impressionable minds…
Track by Track: The Cruise to the End of the World
The Cruise to the End of The World
The song that sets the theme of the EP rolls around with the sound of recorders and a drum beat that washes you over the waves of the guitar riff straight into the wackiest cruise you’ve ever dreamed of. Will you make it alive? Is this a joke? Does anyone know what’s going on here?
The answers are unclear, as the crew alternates between telling you all will be good and “you won’t make it through!”
Pension Scheme
Doesn’t everyone’s mum have a couple conspiracy theories they wholeheartedly believe in? So mine thinks the world will end… and she lets me know pretty regularly. Sure, the reasons vary, and it never actually happens, but that is the influence that stopped me from every signing up for a pension scheme…
Or wait. Was that a mistake?
Turn Your Spaceship back to Earth
How ever the world ends, there will be one last person alive. They might only have a few nanoseconds more, or the rest of their life to spend alone on a dying planet, left behind by their peers, who are travelling on a distant sky in their spaceship.
Outro
At the conclusion of the Cruise, has the world actually come to an end? Is the goodbye from the captain just an illusion in our dying brains?
Or has the apocalypse been commodified into a spectacle that you can sell to people over and over again…
Arrival
Venturing away from the immediate end, Arrival carries you into the more introspective part of the EP. Inspired by the movie of the same name, the song explores the concept of the time space continuum and its many bends and layers, and the consequence that past and future might be happening at the same time.
With that in mind, is it possible that the world is just beginning and ending… at the same time?
