Hunter Ellis' escapist "Hard To Say" is, from the very onset, a gorgeous panoramic soundscape. Ellis crafts a lot of instrumentals full of atmosphere and musical narratives that take you on a journey and it is apparent as you listen to this track. As dense and dreamy the vocals are, often time layered to great emotional depth, it is the musical breaks that veer into surprising places. The guitars, chord directions that dip down into wonderful dissonant places feel like musical ellipses orbiting out of control. The bent tones feel like emotional bumps in a journey traveled but remind us that we can move back on course.
"Hard To Say" is so stuffed full of nuanced sounds, remarkably all created by Ellis himself in Northern California, that it feels, well, Netflixian in scope. That is to say that it should grace a future epic Netflix series. I, in fact, think there should be a new genre that I will coin right now "indie cinematic" (my apologies if the paring of these two words as a music genre has been stated by someone else).
About the song itself: (In the words of Hunter Ellis) "It’s about what happens when the veil of reality becomes thinner than we’re used to, and how that can be scary and unfamiliar."
"Hard To Say" is from Hunter Ellis' upcoming EP "Face Tapes".
-Robb Donker Curtius
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I've been writing, playing, and recording music with my friends since 2003. We were in bands called The Coma Lilies, The Silent Sex Orchestra, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Sex Goddess, SHAT, Mean Girls, My Dads, and Horders.
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