A gripping new track from Italian singer-songwriter, producer, and DJ Kimerica, “Venere In Pellicola” is the first single from her upcoming concept album Techno Lullaby, exploring the end of the world through dark pop textures, club-driven rhythms, and mystique-filled electronic production. The track transforms the dancefloor into a space for resistance amid impending collapse.
A thumping bass and rhythmic presence emanate an atmospheric mystique right away, adorned by sporadic flourishes of spacey synth chills. The lead performance emerges with seamless entrancement, assuming a brisk spoken-word suaveness that turns into wordless sighs as buzzier synth elements waver inward. The debonair phrasing and driving rhythms entice throughout, particularly in the next section, where a heightened melodic pitch and touches of twinkling piano progress into a menacing series of vocalic textures, moving from panting to a growl.
The pulsing synth griminess is fully embraced past the midpoint, infectious in its interplay with the absorbing rhythms, vibey synths, and hypnotic lead delivery. The final minute starts with a largely rhythm-less spaciousness before strutting a final sequence that re-injects the contagious rhythms alongside the prancing synth lines, which fade out into a subdued glimmer as the track comes to an absorbing finish. “Venere In Pellicola” is a stylish, replay-inducing electronic success from Kimerica.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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