hey!blondie - “clouds <3”
hey!blondie from the USA has just released the elegant, electronica-driven dream-pop track, “clouds <3.”
This song falls into that bracket of electronic music that I simply can’t help but love. It could easily serve as the finale to a Chemical Brothers album and evokes the feeling of being in a field watching the sun rise. It’s brimming with psychedelically tinged textures and offers an engrossing, dynamic listening experience.
The track is imbued with a lush sense of ebb and flow, thanks to the meticulously arranged layers of percussive textures. Beginning with an energetic snare that pulses hypnotically, the layers gradually increase in complexity, leading to the enviable euphoric climaxes of powerful yet laid-back grooves.
Psychedelic influences permeate the composition through carefully selected synth layers and keys. These layers create an expansive sense of otherworldly depth. Reverberated, gentle piano melodies weave urgently, infusing a meditative sense of motion. The numerous synth layers vibrantly swirl, pulse, and swell to rich, inevitable euphoric crescendos.
Complementing the composition is the superb vocal performance by hey!blondie, which bubbles with an emotive, ethereal quality. The breathy delivery is tinged with a dreamy sense of introspection. Enhancing the sonic palette are well-executed uses of delay, filtering, and reverb, which only serve to make the track more hypnotic.
hey!blondie adds: “This is really just a break up song at its core. It’s about losing feelings for someone you once cared about. I wanted the drop to feel like the listener was floating in the clouds. I used a lot of synths on this one, as well as soft piano, warm bass and a swingy drill type rhythm to hold it all together.”