Life rarely runs one emotional course, and that complexity is explored by Nick Peers on “Viva La Vida,” one of 11 songs on his recent album, “Anthropos.” The album title comes from the ancient Greek word for a human being and serves as a useful starting point for the project’s broader ideas. The album explores the many contrasts that make up everyday life.
“Viva La Vida” is a piece of this larger meditation on what it means to be human. Happiness and sadness, optimism and pessimism, triumph and shame are all part of the same life, and sometimes closer together than you think. The album’s concept permits such contradictions, not that people are forced into a single static emotional state.
The album explores how the extraordinary is often hidden in the everyday, and how the everyday can be meaningful. It lets you reflect on your own experience as you listen, whether you’re thinking about a rough time, celebrating a good change, or simply how quickly life can turn. As one of 11 tracks on the album, it is part of Nick Peers’s wider exploration of life’s emotional range. It’s part of a larger discussion about how people deal with all its many pieces. That open-ended view gives “Viva La Vida” a pensive place in “Anthropos.”
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