Emmett Morris has come to a conclusion – and it is that what the rich and powerful really want is for everyone to toil, toil, toil and make disproportionately more wealth for their employers, living out their lives as mere worker drones. This revelation he’d like to share through the medium of modern dance swamp rock , describing his situation as the wage slave’s Gilded Cage, and singing of the many unfairnesses that it entails such as wrestling with the notion that “These crooks don’t care about me or about you / As long as they get their precious revenue.” It was ever thus.
Gilded Cage is taken from Morris’ debut solo release The Old Way, which he cut in the first professional studio he ever tracked in as a high school student in Barrie, now known as Thread Junction Studios, run by Jesse Harradine. He explains this return by saying “I had a beer with Jesse and he was a great hang. We shared a lot of musical common ground, and we both talked about how much we love our hometown, which everyone, including fellow residents, seem to shit on so much.”
The Old Way is out September 25th.
