Erich Russek and Poets in Heat
From the album Childish Things (May 28, 2025)
On The Sky Will Fall (Chicken Little), Erich Russek and Poets in Heat take the well-worn children’s fable and reframe it as a low-burning prophecy. Over a minimalist, march-like groove, Russek delivers his signature spoken-word vocals with eerie restraint — more town crier than frontman, chronicling a world on the edge of collapse.
The track draws a straight, unsettling line between fairytale hysteria and modern crises: climate anxiety, media saturation, and digital dread. It doesn’t shout. It simmers. And in doing so, it becomes one of the album’s most quietly confrontational moments.
Part of Childish Things — a record that reimagines nursery tales for a fractured world — this piece uses poetic repetition and pointed understatement to challenge the listener: What if Chicken Little was right all along?