“New Misty Morning” is an alluring electronic pop success from Awaywhere, the San Francisco-based project of visual artist and musician Justin Kleiner. Lucy Rod‘s melodic vocals star throughout as well, accompanying an array of house influences and glitchy pop vibrancy.
An enchanting soundscape emanates right away, with bird-chirping sounds and twinkling keys radiating warmth as Lucy Rod’s serene voice emerges. “New misty morning, exploring the view,” her delivery enamors, recalling The Avalanches in its layered mixture of effervescent clarity and stutter-y electronic infectiousness.
A reference to “a journey into the forest” furthers that embrace of nature and its lushly therapeutic qualities, meeting vibrant synths and bouncy rhythms for continued melodic savvy. The approach to the two-minute mark is especially absorbing, with heavier rhythmic pulses and glimmering, tropical-friendly keys arriving alongside a heightened, soaring vocal phrase—caressingly dreamy in its melodic disposition and accompanied by glistening instrumentation. “New Misty Morning” is a lovely success of a single from Awaywhere.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
