Would you ever want to listen to something that is oil painting and pastel impressionism in musical reembodiment? Canary Complex painted “The Tragic Dance of Dying Leaves” with hues, textures, patterns, and instruments so that it resembles some Monet painting, or a Renaissance 1700s fashion, architecture, and decor à la Marie Antoinette. It’s a very visual album, and each song on it has a different take on this glorious eon.
The indie alternative rock album, ‘The Tragic Dance of Dying Leaves,” leads us to take a double take on the lyrics with musical influences garnered from 80s goth, French chansons, 60s baroque rock, Japanese kei, and so on. And what we hear in the outcome is post-punk, chamber pop, dream pop, and indie alternative rock infused together to orient a canvas and an orchestral garden of softness.
It starts with EDEN, a strawberry-sweet amalgamation of sweet piano, tight drumming, bubbly guitar rhythm, and Canary Complex’s low voice giving off a punk-rock vibe. In the song, Canary Complex gives us a window into his existential and dysmorphic issues.
One of my personal favorites, “Song of Healing,” is a dreamy orchestral piece that almost resembles a chemical and syrupy sweetness pouring out of a bottle. Canary Complex perfectly layers his voice, with one reverberating highly over his low timbre, to manufacture the vocal equivalent of heaven.
Canary Complex infuses elements of darkness in some of his songs, like “For Evergreen,” which is more indigo than pastel pink with its harder drums and slower tempo. He refers to the “tragic dance of dying leaves” as a form of demise here.
If music this aesthetic, vintage, and diverse sounds magnificent to you, give “Tragic Dance of Dying Leaves” by Canary Complex a shot.
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Review By: Naomi Joan