Tag: Single Review: Kenon Chen Driving Sunday (Route 1 Remix)

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 WinterThe Tide: Wave IElectric SpringElectric 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.