Swelling beautifully from lush introspection into rousing rock heights, “Mention Me” is a riveting new track from Alysia Josephine, the solo project of Nashville-based artist Alysia Macias. “Don’t be afraid to show me,” serene vocals let out amidst slight guitar strums and sporadic, textured twangs. An ascending vocal emotion — “you don’t mention me…” — builds with enveloping momentum, developing into an impassioned vocal spirit and expanded rock vigor by mid-point. The three-minute turn is especially gripping in its doses of guitar distortion. “Mention Me” is a thorough success in its dynamic tonal traversal and sincerely emotive prowess.
“I wrote this song a year ago and it has inspired everything I have written since then,” Alysia Josephine says. “This is my second release and sort of the first one that really involves the band as a whole. I feel like this song was honest and also recorded honestly. We tried to focus on keeping it sounding clean while also not getting it to sound overproduced.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
