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The Great Acceleration (Devours Remix)

by Kele Fleming

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What do you get when you mix Mutant DIY Homo Pop with Indie Folk rock? You get Devours' remix of 'The Great Acceleration', that's what you get!

This is a love song for end days. Love feels big and important and worth fighting for in this song. The tempo quickens like a heartbeat accelerating. The intensity of the music heats up like an irresistible attraction. The vocal lines intertwine, finally, like lovers.
This song is one of my personal favourites on the album. I loved recording the vocal lines in this song, and especially enjoyed singing with the strummed bass at the beginning of the original recording of the song.

In 2019, I was hearing so much about the fires raging around the globe. I was reading and researching about climate science and the anthropocene (the most recent period in Earth's history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystems). I stumbled upon an intriguing concept, the great acceleration. It’s the period, since 1950, of the rapid rate of increase in human activity and technological advancement and it’s impact on the Earth. As progress accelerates, so too does our impact on the Earth’s geology and ecosystems. To me, it’s a metaphor for love. If we can get as carried away by our love of life & one another as we do for technology & the rush for progress, we might have a chance. We have time (but not much) to turn things around.

What’s different now is the degree of acceleration. Everything is speeding up.

lyrics

If these are end days
I want to stay and watch the world decay
I can’t do it alone
I want you in my arms
As I get carried away
I’m gonna have my say
It’s a quickening (love is our best plan)
A heartbeat (elevated)
A heat rising

The great acceleration
The great acceleration
The great acceleration

I want this to be a love story
It might be our final embrace
If Love is extinction
We may be the last of our kind
As I get carried away
I’m gonna live for today
It’s a quickening (love is our best plan)
A heartbeat (elevated)
A heat rising

The great acceleration
The great acceleration
The great acceleration

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released July 7, 2023
Song written by Kele Fleming
Song remixed, produced and mastered by Devours
Original vocals recorded by Sheldon Zaharko (Zed Productions) at Vancouver's Warehouse Studios, September 2019.
Instrumentation by Devours
Single cover by Laforest Creative

Video created by John Flatman
Starring Rebecca Dale and Trevor Flatman and a 1928 Ford Model A Roadster Pickup Truck
Video premieres - July 17th 7:15pm PT youtu.be/j94scK-kdR8

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Kele Fleming Victoria, British Columbia

Kele Fleming is a folk-rock singer-songwriter from Victoria, Canada. Her latest single and music video 'Vanishing of Bees (Atlas to Earth Synthwave Remix)' is out now!

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