Will Sims - Do You Feel Alive?
After an outing with your friends, you are on your way back to the city. Think of a song you would play on a long drive on the national highway. The speed, the run, the beats all coming together to give you that hard adrenaline rush. This feeling of freedom hits you as you hit the speed pedal. This is what listening to Do You Feel Alive? By Will Sims feels like. The latest EP by Will Sims features 7 tracks. The record is fused with songs ranging from alternative rock, pop punk, indie, ska, industrial, EDM, funk, and hip-hop. Listening to it sounds like a kaleidoscopic journey. It’s like shifting textures and moods across its seven tracks. The genre-defying EP benefits from sharp mixing and well-balanced layering. You can hear fuzz-heavy guitar riffs on tracks like Full Speed Ahead, and you are hit with high energy. After the first listen, one can tell that contributions like Joe Ruggiero’s guitar work anchor the chaos with great clarity. With this record, Sims navigates catharsis. It’s seen from adrenaline highs, Full Speed Ahead to introspective lows, Better Off Alone. This gives the EP a cinematic arc: tension, release, reflection. Drawing inspiration from artists like David Bowie (theatrical flair) and Trent Reznor (industrial grit), the band brings both bombast and vulnerability, all together. The result is raw, theatrical, and unapologetically personal. The EP opens loud. Starting with Full Speed Ahead, you hear raw riffs, driving drums, like a no-holds-barred entry. This piece translates the title into the song. It bursts into your ear like high gear. The song that follows, Better Off Alone, a slower, more introspective vibe enters the space. This allows listeners to experience the contrast between the song, with emotional, charged vocals. Songs like Decisions, Decisions shift the vibe into funk-pop. You are slapped with bass and jors, and that contrast completely changes the previous mood. The song speaks about choices and how they paralyze modern life: “standing at the crossroads, asking who I am.” Then, songs like The Mourning Moon, Amber Eyes, and There’ll Be Another Time add a cinematic flair to the EP. These pieces dive deep into the experimental bits and weave a dreamy pop net of sorts. There are elements that strengthen the album. If you look at it in terms of versatility, the tone shifts in bouts, setting the listener on a rollercoaster. The emotional arc of the EP covers a journey of rebirth and conflict. Introspection and resolve. The EP is a good fit for movies like: Her (2013) or Ad Astra (2019). Songs like The World Outside and Better Off Alone would highlight within the scene the solitude of space or the alienation of digital relationships.
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