Wowing with its hooky, synth-fronted psych-pop sound, “Monsoon” is a standout new track from Astral Orange. The track’s beginnings arose in 2020 on a retreat in a Northern Arizona cabin, and has since then been worked on carefully, with the final result being a wholly memorable one.
A climactic opening, led by steadily enveloping synths, glides into brisk percussion and passionate vocals. The vocals’ emergence coincides with the synths assuming more effervescent tones and a free-flowing melodic expansion. A soaring vocal whimsy and blistering fuzz-guitar energy entrances about a minute thereafter, growing into an emotive synth-pop yearning rounding the two-minute mark.
The conversational vocal samples lead a lusher step-back, portraying a an effective interlude that leads into yet another successful melodic shift. “Monsoon” touts a warmly familiar production in the vein of Tame Impala, though also impresses in its range of creative hooks and capricious structural charms.
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This track and others featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of September 2022’ Spotify playlist.
The track is also featured in the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Emerging Synth-Pop.
