Featuring the excellent tracks “Lost In Time” and “Everything Is Right,” Burning Scar is a stellar new album from Lotus Seeds, excelling across both moody dream-pop and fervent rock expanses.
The album’s invigorating opener, “Lost in Time” envelops with its array of powerful vocals, hypnotic bass undercurrents, serene guitar twangs, and shimmering synths. Initially wordless vocals progress with anthemic vigor, expanding into gripping lyricism that compares time to “a river that flows uphill.” The blissful atmospherics continue throughout. “Where have I gone? I may never find my way back home” lyrics suggest a sense of lament, though the vocal tone enjoyably exudes a dreamy optimism in its lushly absorbing qualities, attaining a more fervent character in the “backward is forward” finale — reminding there fondly of Wolf Alice as thumping bass, bursting guitars, and spacey synths follow up the riveting vocals.
Another standout track, “Everything Is Right” struts a grooving rhythmic presence right away, quickly bolstered by fluid guitar jangling and “woke up this morning” vocal serenity. The contemplative tone and rumbling rhythms resemble a sense of awakening, both literally and figuratively as when “steps into the noise” following the morning tranquility. “Some days are heavy, some nights are blue,” a striking clarity ensues, maneuvering thereafter into a warming “everything is good” reassurance of a hook — there conjuring a lovely ’90s alt-rock nostalgia, a la PJ Harvey, in its moody allure.
Stream these two tracks and the rest of Lotus Seeds’ fantastic album Burning Scar, below:
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These and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
