Tag: Kenon Chen

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Kenon Chen Shares Glistening and Propulsive “Sunday”

Kenon Chen is a prolific, electronic pop singer/songwriter and producer, who over the course of last year released four albums — Electric Winter, The Tide: Wave I, Electric Spring, Electric Summer and Electric Fall. 

Chen also released the Electric Seasons Remixed album earlier this year. The album features “Safe In Your Arms (Lunar New Year Edit),” a slickly produced hook-driven bop featuring skittering beats, strummed guitar and glistening synth arpeggios serving as a lush and cinematic bed for Chen’s plaintive falsetto. Rooted in deeply heartfelt and earnest lyrics, the song seems to channel Get Ready-era New Order and St. Lucia.

Continuing a wildly prolific run, Chen released the Sunday EP earlier this month. The EP features, EP title track “Sunday (Radio Edit),” is a sleek banger featuring glistening synth arpeggios, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump, a relentless motorik groove paired with rousingly anthemic hooks and bursts of twinkling reverb-drenched keys. The production serves as a lush bed for Chen’s achingly tender falsetto singing some deeply earnest lyrics.

“‘Sunday’ is an anthem to summer Sunday drives and spontaneous adventures, from its infectious melodies to its heartfelt lyrics,” Chen explains.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Kenon Chen Returns with Slick and Anthemic “Driving Sunday (Route 1 Remix)”

Kenon Chen is a prolific extra pop singer/songwriter, who over the course of last year released four albums — Electric Winter, The Tide: Wave I, Electric Spring, Electric Summer and Electric Fall. 

Chen released the Electric Seasons Remixed album earlier this year. Last week, I wrote about the  Get Ready-era New Order-meets-St. Lucia-like “Safer In Your Arms (Lunar New Year Edit),” a slickly produced, hook-driven bop featuring skittering beats, strummed guitar and glistening synths serving as a lush and cinematic bed for Chen’s achingly plaintive falsetto.

Continuing upon a prolific run, Chen also released a standalone single “Driving Sunday (Route 1 Remix),” a lounge friendly, club banger anchored around glistening synth oscillations and skittering beats paired with a relentlessly infectious motorik groove serving as a lush, satiny bed for Chen’s dreamy and yearning falsetto. The result is a song that — to my ears, at least — seems to channel a slick, hook-driven synthesis of 80s New Wave, Giorgio Moroder, Tour de France-era Kraftwerk.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Kenon Chen Shares Slickly Produced Bop “Safer In Your Arms (Lunar New Year Edit)”

Kenon Chen is a prolific extra pop singer/songwriter, who over the course of last year released four albums — Electric Winter, The Tide: Wave I, Electric Spring, Electric Summer and Electric Fall.

Continuing a wildly prolific run, Chen released the Electric Seasons Remixed album earlier this year. The album’s latest single “Safer In Your Arms (Lunar New Year Edit)” is a slickly produced, hook-driven bop featuring skittering beats, strummed guitar, glistening synth arpeggios serving as a lush and cinematic-bed for Chen’s achingly plaintive falsetto.

Rooted in deeply heartfelt and earnest lyrics, “Safer In Your Arms (Lunar New Year Edit)” seemingly channels — to my ears, at least — Get Ready-era New Order and St. Lucia.