Ephemerals' shifting track "Electricity" - the second single from their upcoming "The Third Eye"

AP Track Review

UK's Ephemerals' track Electricity, the second single from their upcoming album "The Third Eye" due to drop on January 2020, rides on supremely beautiful Fender Rhodes keys, dicey beats and Wolfgang Valbrun's ardent vox. The vocal melody is built on his evocative sustain carrying the questions written by the other Ephemerals half, Hillman Mondegreen. 

“Where do you begin and where does somebody else end, and where do they start again?”

Electricity also sprinkles in touches of electro ambiance and a tonal shift a bit past midway that is smile inducing and lifts the song up in mysterious ways. The opposing musical line, embraced with droning synths and truly beat driven bass line, may be rendered with keys or a guitar but those notes feels very guitar like. The shift has an art rock tone and I love that. It is such a creative departure from that pristine Fender Rhodes sound but, oh, how I do love that sound. In the end, maybe that along with Mondegreen's stellar song and Valbrun's amazing vocal delivery is all you need but I am greedy and will take it all.

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Robb Donker

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

‘electricity’ is the second stunning new single to be taken from ephemerals forthcoming album ‘the third eye’.

 Evolving from their initial incarnation as a classic soul group, over the course of their first 3 albums, the band have continuously pushed beyond the boundaries of traditional genre ideas and traverse unexplored musical territories.

 And their fourth record sees this trend continue, as experimentation with recording and mixing techniques to illustrate the artistic concepts behind the songs has been key in the overall character of ‘the third eye’ album sound.

 ‘electricity’ is a prime example of this where dreamy Rhodes chords superimpose from their hard left and hard right pan positions in the mix alongside a drum kit that has various elements hard panned alongside them. Imitating masculine and feminine sides of a brain, the mix conceptualizes the power of non-binary in a sonic spectrum.

 Frontman - Wolfgang Valbrun’s vocal carries an inspirational and cleansing tone, delivering songwriter – Hillman Mondegreen’s incisive and poignant lyrics that speak out against individual consumerist philosophy.  

 Lines like: “Where do you begin and where does somebody else end, and where do they start again?” are conveyed with sincerity in an introspective track that bristles and fizzes like its title would suggest.