With abyssinian, the standout single from their sophomore album, The Tender Components unfurled a texturally intricate sonic tableau which refuses to settle into predictability.
Opening with cinematic neo-classical grandeur, abyssinian invitations listeners to walk by the golden age of movie scores, earlier than the coolness of avant-garde influences begins to weave by the natural heat of the basslines. Playful polyphonic keys quickly take centre stage, creating a fragile pressure as every instrumental component works in purposeful juxtaposition to the subsequent. When the neo-classical keys return with higher tenacity, they anchor the composition, making certain it by no means spirals into abstraction regardless of its eclecticism.
The Tender Components, the venture of a Houston-based composer and sound artist, brings collectively a novel palette of influences spanning classical music, artwork rock, cocktail jazz, and lounge music. These influences formed abyssinian into what may finest be described as funk-inflected artwork pop, dipped within the moody magnetism of New Tango and Arab musical textures.
abyssinian pulls listeners into its orbit, making them really feel the panorama of its creation because it swaggers, scintillates, and soothes in equal measure. If you wish to stray away from sonic monotony, hit play.
Abyssinian was formally launched as a part of The Tender Components’ sophomore LP, innuendo, on January 3rd; stream the one on all main platforms, together with Spotify, now.
Overview by Amelia Vandergast
