Nashville-based artist Allan Jamisen captivates with “All I Am Is You,” a new track that fuses electronic grit, soulful interplay, and cinematic textures. Jamisen has long explored genre-spanning sounds — from funk and spaghetti-western slide guitar to alt-pop sophistication. Drawing on influences ranging from Burt Bacharach and Leonard Cohen to Motown and The Velvet Underground, his work blends meticulous composition with intuitive emotion, creating a richly layered, immersive listening experience. His previous tracks “Living the Dream” and “Rise Above” caught our ears, and now “All I Am Is You” stops us in our tracks as well.
A spacey, otherworldly intrigue shows right away on “All I Am Is You,” as eerie synths and an electronic-tinted vocal element converge. Strings linger in the background, and buzzing synths enter the fold as well — crafting a cinematic, sweeping soundscape. The track then shifts into a debonair intrigue. Jamisen’s vocals emerge amidst stylish synths, grumbling guitar distortion, and a steady bass undercurrent.
The lyricism stirs in its perspectives of self, and how a desire to please and conform can override the beauty of individuality. “The price of excitement is your desire to be somebody,” Jamisen lets out, culminating in a title-touting refrain that invigorates in its melodic precision and thematic pull. A soulful vocal entry — “got what you need” — bolsters the fantastic production in the second half, adding further charisma to a track that succeeds in its enjoyable introspection and suavely impactful mixture of alt-pop and soul.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup.
