Tag: Single Review: Higher

New Audio: Solid Spark Shares Summery “Higher”

Solid Spark is a rising electronic music producer and DJ, who has caught the attention of the global electronic scene with a sound that seamlessly blends contemporary pop sound with golden age EDM nostalgia. For the rising electronic music producer and DJ, the result is material that’s dance floor friendly but packs a deep emotional and energetic resonance. 

Earlier this year, I wrote about “Dream,” a slick, club friendly banger featuring glistening synths, a sultry and yearning vocal sample, skittering beats and euphoria-inducing hook and drops. The production revealed a producer with an uncannily sophisticated sense of soulful craftsmanship.

Building upon a growing profile, the rising producer’s latest single “Higher” is a club friendly bop featuring glistening synths, a chopped and screwed vocal sample-driven, incredibly catchy hook, a yearning female vocal sample for the verses, skittering tweeter and woofer rattling thump. While continuing to cement his reputation for crafted and soulful electronic music, “Higher” may arguably be the most summery and catchiest song of the producer’s growing catalog to date.

Belovedx is a mysterious Toronto, ON-based electro pop act, that specializes in a sound that they described to me as dark, melodic pop/electro pop with an alternative edge, along the lines of Banks, The Neighbourhood, Travis Scott, 6lack, Deftones and Marilyn Manson among others — and with “Higher,” off their latest effort, Love x Songs, the act’s sound manages to reveal both a slick and contemporary electronic production featuring slick, yet rousing hooks paired with boom-bap drum beats,  cascading layers of shimmering synths, plaintive vocals. But just underneath the surface is a swooning Romanticism.