Have you ever desperately wanted to escape your feelings and just take the wheel to leave it all behind? Wotts intend to do the same with their new single, โWheel.โ Wotts is well-known for its depressing, heartbreak music and elegies. But in this single, we hear none of that. Is it totally out of character, though? Because Wotts is also known for mixing the new with the old, and what we hear from Wheel is a retro folk song made modern.
As a musical composition, Wheel has a whole folk orchestra behind it. The song begins with an acoustic guitar twang and a tambourine shaking things up as the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jayem sings about someone getting away.
The tambourine really serves that sensation of letting things go. However, it only gets as sunny as it is contrived to manifest whatever he wants to believe because Jayem continues: Donโt show pain cuz they put you in a corner/ Happens to the best, yah, thatโs just what I know.
Wotts also used the trumpet in Wheel but only amongst verses curving to a lower intonation where the disappointment is mentioned. Itโs interesting how meaningfully the orchestra has been organized.
The bass and the drums make more constant appearances in the chorus to give more weight to Jayemโs stressed yet fluent syllables. Meanwhile, the piano offers a more world-creating effect where we can just understand an unseen but surely heard ecosystem in the musical piece.
It seems as though Wheelโs musical cacophony is the language that speaks the heartโs narrative while the mind continues to drive behind the wheel.
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Review by: Naomi Joan