Kinetic Currency
Life in 2025 feels like standing in front of a television that never switches off, headlines flashing and arguments spilling over before the last one has even ended. “Kinetic Currency”, the new single from Lomens, lives in that space of exhaustion and alertness, where you are both overwhelmed by information and suspicious of what any of it means. The voice here is not that of a politician or pundit but of someone trying to get through the week, working out bills, holding down routines, glancing at the news and feeling only more bewildered. That choice of perspective matters: it captures the strange in-between state of wanting to understand but also wanting peace, of craving clarity but knowing it will not arrive. Musically, the band rise to this challenge with a scale that refuses to shrink. Their sound is vast and unvarnished, closer to a storm than a song, guitars and synths surging against each other until they create the sense of something larger than life yet rooted in the grit of daily survival. It is not escapist, nor is it a rallying cry, but something harder to define: a sonic portrayal of disorientation that still carries defiance, even dignity. Where most music about current events tries to argue or to soothe, Lomens let the chaos stand, turning it into noise that feels cathartic rather than crushing. “Kinetic Currency” doesn’t give answers, but it does give shape to the confusion of being alive right now — and sometimes that is enough.