In the age of tags useful for algorithms, it is necessary to immediately identify the genre to better index the algorithms of streaming sites. It works like this for humans too.
By now, when one asks about musical tastes, one asks only the genre and never the author in particular. And so we have reduced the music a pop, rock, commercial and company. I don't think so, I believe that each work must be analyzed individually, but in any case the end of the controversy. To be clear, I will also use many tag. Resign yourself!
I would place the disc in question in the category electro-r & b which technically identifies a soul genre markedly contaminated by electronics and languages hip hop. But it boils down to a lot to do so, patience. Let's go on with the basic ingredients that make this record worthy of being put on the playlist. First of all, Rosie Lowe's timbre is clean and crystalline, I would dare to say a pure song without useless virtuosity or those horrible warbling black to make the item more aggressive. Second, some arrangements cool with sonority contemporary.
What intrigued me the most: the broken use of time. Let's face it, it is often easy to make music with the copy-and-paste of rhythmic and harmonic portions thanks also to the sophisticated with di sequencing, so for peace of the lovers of the reassuring 4/4. I'm not saying here the periodic rhythms and pads urban there is no shortage, but the flow of the songs comes continuously unstructured by an intelligent use of timbres and gods synth where the voice is never a cut above, but melts into the electronic slime. So even very simple texts bordering on the surreal "sound" weird , but credible.
As in Valium with its space pads that every good "bedroom producerShe would like in her library of VSTs and the filtered voice of the vocoder singing "You're beautiful, but you're dehydrated / You're so adorable, but you're dehydrated." Raise your hand who would not skip after a few seconds. But no, these sounds reach your stomach and make you want to go on, also thanks to the splendid mixing.
Rosie insists on fifth grade lyrics in ITALY (I tbucket I love you) an acrostic similar to our own TVUMDB written on the walls. But damn if it works! Hear the sound dress and find a complex architecture made of layers of effects, ambient noises, portions of beats and first-rate sytnh. And then you want to close your eyes and hear it repeat a thousand times that sweet little phrase from a voice so sinuous as to cause diabetes mellitus. And if you are still there, hear the shotgun that closes the record with Shoulder / Apologise.
The first tells of the fears that come as we grow up and the sound dress oscillates between a restless and sunny beat that well underlines the text. Apologize on the other hand, it presents an unusual discarded tone for a closing piece embellished by the important work of Sam Crowe on the piano.
In an interview Rosie Lowe stated that this record explores the complex web of romantic relationships and whether she is what she is today has depended on an analytic therapy she has been following in recent years. And indeed these songs, sometimes dark, but often also very sunny, seem to translate the fundamental question of relationships into music, so difficult to define in tag alone.
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In the age of tags useful for algorithms it is necessary to immediately identify the genre to better index the algorithms of the streaming sites. This also works for humans.
When we ask for musical tastes we only ask for the genre and never for the author in particular. And so we have reduced music to pop, rock, commercial and so on. I don't think so, I believe that each work should be analyzed individually. Anyway, no controversy please. To be clear I will also use many Tags, so do resign yourself.
I would place this album in question in the electro-r & b category which technically identifies a soul genre markedly contaminated by electronics and hip hop languages. But it comes down to doing so. Let's go on with the basic ingredients that make this record worthy of being put on a playlist. First of all a clean and crystalline voice. I would dare to say a pure singing voice without useless virtuosity or those horrible black trills to make it more aggressive. Second, some cool arrangements with contemporary sounds.
And what intrigued me the most: the broken use of time. Let's face it, it is often easy to make music with copy-and-paste of rhythmic and harmonic portions thanks also to sophisticated sequencing with also for peace of mind of reassuring 4/4 lovers. I do not say that here there is no lack of rhythmic and periodical urban pads, but the flow of songs is continually deconstructed by an intelligent use of timbres and synths where the voice is never a cut above but it blends into the electronic slime.
So even very simple lyrics on the edge of the surreal sound weird, but credible. As in Valium with his space pads that every good bedroom producer would like in his VST library and the voice filtered by the singing vocoder: “You're beautiful, but you're dehydrated / You're so lovely, but you're dehydrated.” Hands up who wouldn't skip after a few seconds. But no, this tiny voice comes to you in your stomach and makes you want to go on also thanks to the splendid mixing.
Rosie insists with kind of Primary school's fifth grade lyrics in ITALY (I tbucket I love you) an acrostic which could have been written on the walls. But hell if it works! Do listen to the sound dressed and you will find a complex architecture made up of layers of effects, ambient noises, portions of beat and marvelous sytnhs. And at this point you might close your eyes and hear that little honey-like phrase repeated a thousand times from a so sinuous voice as to give you diabetes mellitus. And if you are still there then hear the final songs Shoulder/Apologize which closes the album.
The first one tells of the fears that come as you grow and the sound dress oscillates between a restless and sunny beat that well underlines the lyrics. Apologize instead presents an unusual discarded tone for a closing piece embellished by the important work of Sam Crowe on the piano.
In an interview Rosie Lowe stated that this record explores the complex net of romantic relationships and her personality has been influenced by an analytical therapy followed in recent years. And actually these sometimes dark but often very sunny songs seem to translate into music the fundamental question of relationships, so difficult to define just with Tags.
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Good listening
English translation Lorenzo Sorbo
