Instrumentals are the musical equivalent of abstract art. Instrumentals are conveyed through every beat, every string, every chord, and all the highs and lows the same way abstract art is understood through the nature of the paint strokes. And the best instrumentals know just how to tell a whole story exempt of any linguistics to pass the message.
Alec Berlinโs โManโs Best Friendโ carries the music as though it were words and utterances, moods, meanings, and shapes. He gave them shape with his brilliant direction. How? It all started in his stupor, where he started visualising musical euphonies. He woke up and actualized them all until he realized his dreams were only part of his subconsciousness and that these songs were inside him, to begin with, and they were pleading to come out.
Manโs Best Friend is a 5 minute long track from his album of the same name. It features an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, and vivid drums during its crescendo. Beginning with soft and sweet acoustic guitar showcasing the innocence and happiness of a โManโs Best Friendโ when with their master and the loyalty that comes with it. But thatโs just the surface-level feeling. Love runs deep. And so the bass gets deeper.
The instrumentals in โManโs Best Friendโ get layered with harder basslines and gets accompanied by drums, and yet the introductory playful beats remain as though they are the chorus that delineates the moral of the story or the core value of the character that is being portrayed in the song.
If you want to dissect a most unusual story told through the sound of music, do check out Alec Berlinโs โManโs Best Friend!โ
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Review By: Naomi Joan