“No Answers Given” is a consuming electronic pop production from Toronto-based artist OTHEOSE, developing from brooding bass-laden bustling into riveting synth work and vocal layers. The release follows up the excellent “Sundown,” which caught our ears in June. Both tracks — featuring on upcoming full-length album Continental Drift — excel with memorably atmospheric and melodically emotive prowess.
A textured electronic pop appeal, with palpable emotion, lingers throughout. “Think I wanna feel something,” dreamy vocals yearn during a climactic bridge, where buzzing synths culminate into an invigorating vocal soaring: “the space inside, between desires and my mind, is missing.” The lyricism artfully conveys the desire for answers, and whatever soul-searching those responses can remedy. An especially impactful sequence takes hold prior to the three-minute turn, where effect-laden vocals exude gripping theatrics into another delightful “space inside” hook. “No Answers Given” is another showcase in quality songwriting and savvy production from OTHEOSE, the project of Kevin Krouglow.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
