Solarpunk Grazers
Solarpunk Grazers
Serialising the album Pretentious Incongruity by Key 13 (@keefmarshall)
Pretentious Incongruity: 2020-2024 is a retrospective compilation looking back at some key milestones in the first five years of Key 13 as a recording identity.
Track 1
“Today I learned that a lot of large solar farm owners use sheep herds to maintain their grass and they’re called solarpunk grazers and life seems a little better.” – Kenn White
The best Key 13 track? Well, that depends on your taste.. but this one has to be up there, and definitely needs to open the collection. Orignally made for the Fedivision Song Contest 2023, it came joint sixth out of 40+ entries, which I was blown away with – I didn’t expect anyone to even listen past the first few bars, let alone vote for it. But I’m pretty proud of it – lyrically and structurally it’s not a bad song. I think this is definitely the best mix yet, although still a bit sharp and the bass is too loud? Oh well.
Influences: Believe it or not, I was listening to a lot of Broken Social Scene at the time, and was trying to capture some of their sound. I know, it’s nothing like that. But if it works, don’t knock it.
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track Notes
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Lyrics
Under the sun
Ground clouds graze
On green grass
In harmony
With earth and rays
Solarpunk grazers, free
No fumes
No waste
Solar bliss
They’re shining in the sun
Over grass and under sky
Fields upon fields of light
Field upon field so bright
Revolution has begun
Green power for everyone
Sheep roam and current flows
Beneath a radiant glow
Electric symphony
Infinite energy
But we’ve only just begun
Did we miss the starting gun?
Now the fires rage
And the forests shrink
Is it all too late
Ground clouds
Electric symphony
Solarpunk grazers, free
