"coals in the fire stir the desire for love"
Sweet September by Evening Elevator, the songwriting and production team of Tim Segreto and Dub Sonata is not only a thing of beauty but holds, in it's melodic embrace, that difference that is sometimes hard to ascertain but is there glowing like a bright ember. It is that same difference that you feel seeing an askew piece of art in a museum, or listening to a busker in the city that has an unreachable spark that belies his artistic station in life, or watching a movie by a director that might look at the artifice of life sideways like a Wes Anderson or Jemaine Clement or the Coen Brothers or Taika Waititi.
I fully admit that I fell in love with "Sweet September" from the onset, there is something about those keys that sort of clamor along with the upfront guitar strumming. Love the vocal aesthetic that does not sway in a bittersweet way but in a sweet way. Clearly Segrato and Sonata are hopeless romantics and while the song plums the shallows of despair and depths of longing in spots, it overall feels terribly wistful enhanced by meandering and tortured piano, violins burning like the aforementioned embers and bass and drums dancing together dramatically (part samba and part waltz). I fucking love this song.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Evening Elevator is the songwriting and production team of Tim Segreto and Dub Sonata. True modernist visionaries, their music contains the best from all genres and is confined in none. Using everything from classical instruments to obsolescent electronic devices, their music is an entrancing dreamscape of symphony-size epics and eloquent lyrics.
Their solo efforts were released to critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, Complex, and The Miami Herald, and featured in motion picture scores and commercial campaigns for Adobe, Chevrolet, and Victoria's Secret. While Segreto's Populus debuted on KCRW's nationally acclaimed radio show Morning Becomes Eclectic, Dub Sonata produced for the likes of Jidenna, Rhymefest, and Sage Francis, after releasing his own genre-blending Nights in Cuba LP. His strict attention to detail provides a perfect balance to Segreto's untainted musical reverie.
Evening Elevator's electro-acoustic hybrid is a feast for the senses, and the soul. With songs ranging from lighthearted and jubilant to melancholic and pensive, their emotionally stirring melodies and kaleidoscopic tones craft a mesmerizing journey of innocence, tragedy, and love.
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