Tag: The Silence

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

Raised in Istanbul, Benjamin Dean, an emerging singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. who relocated to the US when he was a teenager. In his early 20s, he wound up in Atlanta, where he studied at Georgia State University‘s School of Music for about a year before leaving school to focus on his own creative projects.

After leaving Georgia State, Dean wound up performing at a a number of venues in the Atlanta area including Eddie’s Attic and Smith’s Olde Bar. Last year, Dean released a series of alternative folk singles before deciding that he should take his music in a completely new direction. Earlier this year, Dean started writing material, which began incorporating elements of New Wave funk, indie rock and R&B — with the end result being his latest EP, Tame the Beast, which was released earlier this year. The EP’s latest single “The Silence” is a slinky and funky track featuring shimmering and atmospheric synths Nile Rodgers-like guitar, thumping drums, a two-step inducing hook paired with Dean’s plaintive falsetto. And while centered around an incredibly upbeat air, the track sonically reminds me quite a bit of JOVM mainstays Tame Impala and Washed Out — earnest and thoughtful, yet dance floor friendly.

 

 

 

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

 

Bailey Crone is an Atlanta-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for playing bass in Atlanta-based pop rock act VYB (pronounced “vibe”). Interestingly, her solo recording project Bathe is a dream pop act is driven by her desire to create songs that you can “lay on the floor and stare at the ceiling to,” as she says in press notes.
Crone’s Bathe debut Last Looks is slated for release in 2020 and the album will reportedly feature songs relating to struggling with loss. “Not breakup songs, but concept of loss as a whole,” Crone explains in press notes. Interestingly, Last Looks‘ latest single, the Damon Moon-produced “The Silence” is centered around seemingly endless layers of shimmering guitars, stuttering drumming, a sinuous bass line, Crone’s ethereal vocals  and a soaring hook — and the song finds the Atlanta-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist crafting a gorgeous yet achingly lonely track that recalls both 4AD Records and Beach House among others.
“For the song The Silence, I would like for it to lyrically be able to fit any one person’s image of loss and loneliness and the quietness that always comes hand in hand with the concept of absence,” Crone says in press notes. “I relate to the lyric ‘Guess it took yourself a while to become the one that yo know you can count on’ in many different ways.  It could be talking about my past history with panic attacks where I struggle with anxieties of being alone, how I had to rely on myself to follow my passion with creating music, losing a loved one, or anything really.”