Let Down Your Hair (Rapunzel) – Poets in Heat

A surreal, groove-forward fairytale turned sideways, Let Down Your Hair reimagines Rapunzel not as a trapped princess but as a dystopian symbol of control, resistance, and surveillance. The track fuses art rock and funk, led by a tightly coiled rhythm and layered with spoken-word vocals that sound both intimate and ominous.

Erich’s delivery is sarcastic, seductive, and unsettling — like someone reading bedtime stories through a static-filled intercom in the middle of a societal collapse. His voice walks the line between prophet and provocateur.

The title line becomes a loaded command: Let down your hair isn’t a request for connection — it’s a metaphor for exposure, vulnerability, power, and maybe even programming. As the groove deepens, the song transforms from narrative to warning, like a fable rewritten by someone who knows what happens after the storybook closes.

Living in Our Cars (Pt. 1) – Erich Russek and Poets in Heat

A slow-grooving, cinematic portrait of displacement, Living in Our Cars (Pt. 1) captures what it means to survive at the edge of the system with nothing but a vehicle, a voice, and a signal. Erich’s spoken-word English verses paint a world of quiet rebellion and worn-down resilience — where people live out of their cars, not just because they have to, but because it’s the last place that’s still theirs.

The female voice on the radio, speaking in Spanish, delivers philosophical fragments, emotional cautions, and cryptic wisdom — including a reference to Wittgenstein’s famous line: “If one cannot speak, one must be silent.” These transmissions float through the mix like signals from another realm — maternal, distant, maybe divine.

Wordless female vocalizations weave in and out, acting as a ghostly counterpoint — a reminder of something tender and human within the asphalt exile. The chorus, deceptively simple and melodic, becomes a mantra for this new reality: Living in our cars with the radio on…