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Concern over your individual human condition habitually is more paramount, in general, than the plight of other people. One of the greatest ways we deal with and express ourselves has been through music. Music will never let you down. Music can usually pull you through just about anything. And Cater Ace is proving their proficiency in managing the interface between you and your life using that medium.
Carter Ace's latest EP "Music's Better Than People" is music finding itself in an accelerated timeline of growth that knows said growth leads to brighter days on the horizon, all in a five song span. Opener "I've Got My Life 2 Live" starts at the back end of redemption and perseverance, in other words that horizon starts out in sight. Glided, silky guitar riffs cry a base melody for the composition. Snare claps pump life into the song and "I've Got My Life 2 Live", with its polished horn sections and riffs are never going to fail. The instrumentation is so commanding Oneil Carter nearly false starts out the gates, flowing his striving vocals in a way I have surely never heard before. His lyrics want more and demand more. But even in determination you lose some sense of direction and that can let apprehension creep into your spirit.
In an utter style switch (which happens from song-to-song), the following record "That's How Life Goes (C'est La Vie)" not only is a performance of versatility, it tumbles with cynicism and connects as the most vigorous song due to multiplex singing, melodies, voices, production, and the dividing then intersection of the instrument's parts. A sustained agrestal drum lead-in dances through the song. An attack of glassy chords implement a melody against the vocals that make trying look like duck soup. It isn't until the penultimate "You You You" that life's bull begins to feel lighter again.
"You You You" sounds like a song the students from "Class of 3000" might have studied. Layers of submerged chord progressions on guitar, virtually undetectable synthesizer drones, and drums that are precisely the right noisy create a combustible energy in need of release that Oniel gets out using toppling flows, deft wordplay and lovelorn melodies. The pre-chorus and chorus to the outro is like a screeching halt of vocals and harmonies emitting raw emotion. "You You You" simply sounds amazing. And as far as "Where's Yo Mind" (feat. Tru) goes, I'll just say the rustic bridge draws me to Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen" chorus and the guitar solo to their 1972 album "Can't Buy A Thrill." So I doubt anything needs to be said beyond that point.
"Music's Better Than People" uses music as self-preservation. This EP ebbs and flows in the good, the bad and the ugly. Carter Ace got what they needed out of it. And unlike some people it will always be here for the next person that needs it.
Listen to "Music's Better Than People" below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
Concern over your individual human condition habitually is more paramount, in general, than the plight of other people. One of the greatest ways we deal with and express ourselves has been through music. Music will never let you down. Music can usually pull you through just about anything. And Cater Ace is proving their proficiency in managing the interface between you and your life using that medium.
Carter Ace's latest EP "Music's Better Than People" is music finding itself in an accelerated timeline of growth that knows said growth leads to brighter days on the horizon, all in a five song span. Opener "I've Got My Life 2 Live" starts at the back end of redemption and perseverance, in other words that horizon starts out in sight. Glided, silky guitar riffs cry a base melody for the composition. Snare claps pump life into the song and "I've Got My Life 2 Live", with its polished horn sections and riffs are never going to fail. The instrumentation is so commanding Oneil Carter nearly false starts out the gates, flowing his striving vocals in a way I have surely never heard before. His lyrics want more and demand more. But even in determination you lose some sense of direction and that can let apprehension creep into your spirit.
In an utter style switch (which happens from song-to-song), the following record "That's How Life Goes (C'est La Vie)" not only is a performance of versatility, it tumbles with cynicism and connects as the most vigorous song due to multiplex singing, melodies, voices, production, and the dividing then intersection of the instrument's parts. A sustained agrestal drum lead-in dances through the song. An attack of glassy chords implement a melody against the vocals that make trying look like duck soup. It isn't until the penultimate "You You You" that life's bull begins to feel lighter again.
"You You You" sounds like a song the students from "Class of 3000" might have studied. Layers of submerged chord progressions on guitar, virtually undetectable synthesizer drones, and drums that are precisely the right noisy create a combustible energy in need of release that Oniel gets out using toppling flows, deft wordplay and lovelorn melodies. The pre-chorus and chorus to the outro is like a screeching halt of vocals and harmonies emitting raw emotion. "You You You" simply sounds amazing. And as far as "Where's Yo Mind" (feat. Tru) goes, I'll just say the rustic bridge draws me to Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen" chorus and the guitar solo to their 1972 album "Can't Buy A Thrill." So I doubt anything needs to be said beyond that point.
"Music's Better Than People" uses music as self-preservation. This EP ebbs and flows in the good, the bad and the ugly. Carter Ace got what they needed out of it. And unlike some people it will always be here for the next person that needs it.
Listen to "Music's Better Than People" below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
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