Maryland-based songwriter K Nkanza, aka Spring Silver, makes their own sort of anything-goes hyper-indie. Their anthems of unapologetic nonconformity draw equally from late ’90s post-hardcore, IDM-style electronics, and power pop.
With their forthcoming album on the horizon, their new song “Gold Star,” out today, feels like a glimpse into the impending opus that Spring Silver is meticulously crafting.
K explains, “Growing up with the internet, I was watching a lot of content where people would take various media and just slice and dice it. Whether it was for humor, for reverence of the original material, or whatever. It’s still happening now, and you can see it on tiktok with corecore videos and fancams and stuff. I wanted to do something like that with this video but I didn’t want to make the thematic pull or the message obvious. Just kind of let the experience hit people. I wanted to let the sonics of the song guide my visuals more than the lyrics. The lyrics are pretty straightforward tonally, in their condemnation of American capitalism. But, the song itself kind of straddles a lot of different moods: exuberance, anxiety, all this shifting stuff.”
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