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On May 22 2020, Mexico City based art pop outfit Hieronymous release their second single entitled “Artificial Moon”. It is a song entirely appropriate for the moment we are living through, about the end times, set in an arctic haze where an unrelenting sun keeps you up at night. It is a song which starts with an ominous alarm, followed by hammering, dissonant pianos but which lets the beauty shine through as it speaks of an apocalyptic meeting with ourselves. The future is always uncertain, but perhaps now more than ever. How can we still live and love, when it’s all too easy to only see the chaos looming on the horizon? “An artificial moon, it’s all that you can see”, croons singer Simon Balthazar, and adds: “I still want you though I’m already lost”.
From the animation studio The French Kiss Lab comes the video accompanying the song, a digital wunderkammer of robotic mishaps and crashed cars, dislodged in time.
Hieronymous is a mix of local and international musicians based in Mexico City and one of the newest additions to the city’s blossoming scene of alternative pop music.
lyrics
Can we talk to them? Can we still talk?
Well I fell into, fell into the long grass
And now the sunlight keeps me up at night
Shining on the long grass
Can we trust in them? Can we still trust?
Cause it’s getting hard to tell us apart
And now their thoughts come fast, they come to me at night
Hiding in the long grass
An artificial moon, this world’s already dead
I still wonder how
An artificial me: you found me dead
An artificial moon, it’s all that you can see
I still want you though I’m already lost
But you never know for how long
Has it happened yet? Will it happen?
There’s a blinding light filling up the whole sky
And now an end comes closer every night
Things will never be the same
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