I’d also be hard-pressed to believe Lightburn when he sings “I’m gonna get you your soul back”. The tract on the album’s website (which for some reason has been taken down) may hint that the protagonist is talking to an angel, but if I didn’t pay attention, I’d take this as Murray’s commentary on spiritually dead people who walk the streets destroying hope in people changing the world. “Those motherfuckers are going to bury your hands/They spend their life before a pentagram/…And they may never, never get their souls back”, sighs Lightburn. On the first track and first single “Motherfuckers!!!”, The Ruiner spreads blame for his character as he faces judgement day, but if you weren’t paying attention, it might as well be more social commentary. Though, this album would also do just fine without the story. While taking a break from the Dears, he used his solitude and the same worry to create an album featuring a whole new protagonist called The Ruiner. (I guess you can say before I wrote this, I thought of Lightburn as a hero in the same way that he would think of Morrissey.) For anyone who has felt like an outsider, felt counted out, felt like they needed to get their own salvation, he was willing to give his heart through his music. As a member of the Dears, he has used his fears, regrets and his inner feelings to create a legion of fans that sing to his every word.
In ways, an anti-hero is flawed, troubled, counted out in more ways than one, only to come back swinging in ways one could never see coming. The result is that he has birthed a character we can all relate to through a concept album that blends electronica, soul, pop, with a bit of neoclassical.įor those that don’t quite know what an anti-hero is, it’s basically the protagonist that no one would ever count on to be the hero. On Mass: Light, Lightburn strikes out on his own to create an antihero to represent the bearer of all of his inner demons.
For years, Murray Lightburn has used his group The Dears as more than just a place to sculpt out orchestrated rock music, but a place for him to exorcise all of his demons, including social issues such as race and religion.
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