Classic of the Week: Into The Wild - Eddie Vedder

In this era we live in, that people like to label as post-modernism, we are confronted with various choices of clothing, religion, food, sub-cultures etc. We are capable of forming our identity and can constantly reinvent ourselves. Our world view and sense of being is giving to us as products of utility in the rapidly changing urban environment. This social climate we are a born into smothers morality, our need to ask existential question and to explore idiosyncratic traits. 

Eddie Vedder expresses McCandless’s story of liberation from oppressing suburban materialistic conditions on an intimate level. The music like his life story has a transcendental and a footloose, day-dreaming quality.

Eddie Vedder crafted his lyrics to portray an objective criticism on the materialistic, contemporary society; while expressing the ideals, beliefs, indignation and adventurous energy of an individual that wants to liberate himself from the superficial, unmoral day-to-day lifestyle of middle class America. Instrumentally the songs have a rhythm that can be strongly associated with movement and a spiritual awakening. 

This album is worth listening to offer and offer; an unorthodox perspective on life and an expression of the beauty in autonomous, footloose living. ▲ 

- Jacques Fourie