Clay Joule – Nothing (2022)
Through his single ‘Nothing’, Clay Joule is offering a message for the next generation of creative visionaries. With the automation that has made its way into the modern music world, Joule uses his unmistakable style to urge us all to unlearn the bad habits of modern music and learn the true meaning of music. Fresh and unique, the acoustic drums shine as Joule lets us know that nothingness is not a vacuum, but a place of possibilities.
Originally written in 1989, but only released now, the single is as powerful and meaningful today as it was then. After growing up on the streets of New York City and rap battling his peers, Joule found his unique blend of music by breaking down the walls of genre and style. Now, he is calling out to a new generation of musicians with a word of wisdom that any creative person should listen to, complete with a music video to match.
‘Nothing’ hits you with some addictive guitar tones from the first moment. The layers of guitars have you bopping and swaying to the sound before you know what has happened. It is a rather eclectic sound that brings hints of different genres and styles together. You can feel the caress of rock guitars mixing with a funkier blues slide to create a quirky movement. Through all of this, there is an excellent bounce to the beats that bop you down the soundscape, only for the guitars to create a slide of awesome music for you to glide along. Each instrument has a chance to make its presence known while adding to the overall flow of the single. This is a masterpiece of music that lets you know that all you need for an extremely catchy single is organic instrumentation played with passion.
While you are moving down the melody to the instrumentation’s flow, Joule’s vocals lightly ghost over the back of your neck. His performance is like a breeze that catches your attention and hooks you to the slide of the melody. There is a bop to his delivery that matches the addictive drums in the lower levels of the melody. While he bops you with his performance, the lyrics carry an important message that you need to take the time to listen to. Through the lyrics, he offers some serious wisdom about where creativity really thrives and how nothing is not the absence of something, but its birthplace.
Clay Joule uses a quirky mixture of genres and styles to unleash some serious wisdom into the world in the eclectic single ‘Nothing’. From the first guitar note to the last drum beat, the melody has you gliding down a slide of music that is a true masterclass in musical fusion. Joule’s vocals dance over the melody, bringing their own bop while imparting some serious words of wisdom about nothingness.
