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In what is perhaps a niche reference at the moment, Carter Ace's music is to me what "Apex Legends" is to skit content creator, streamer and Toxic Gang patriarch, Physicalgamerz (PG), which is to say Ace's music is prepotent in my rotation in the face of appearance amount.
A year's time of working on something does not always bond the way you need it to. Carter Ace's latest song "Baggage" did. Produced by SoFly & Nius, guitar performed by Daniel Durant, keys by Pierre Melki and drums programmed by Oneil Carter, "Baggage" balances collaborative performance in order to mull and communicate everything going wrong.
Twinkly flute flares fly and occasionally riff around porcelain textured chords to operate a scintillating guiding melody into plopping drums in a pattern spelling out bruiser. A stooged rhythm guitar plugs a temperamental riff and progression in where it can fit, working on two fronts -- fortifying the dominating rhythm and opening the production where the melody comes back in and minor horn sections breach the spaces of the structure. The production is a lob for Oneil to bounce all over "Baggage" like a trampoline park.
Carter's vocals two-face their moods when it comes to the verse and hook, only both faces are different looks of the same cynicism. Deflated melodies sputter out with apathetic lyrics, igniting the runs and ending in a designed dud. His repeating hook sounds like an entire section of miserable isolated backing vocals, somewhat bringing to mind Sleepy Brown's tones in his backing vocals and hook on Big Boi's "The Way You Move." There is a groove and a style to Carter Ace's worries. The cacophony of broken talk box strings and matching key melodies for a bridge connects like the mental snap where the response is to just laugh.
"Baggage" is exactly that, all the crap we take with us wherever we go. But when your baggage sounds like this, it makes it feel that much lighter.
Watch "Baggage" below.
Video Cred: youtube.com
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
In what is perhaps a niche reference at the moment, Carter Ace's music is to me what "Apex Legends" is to skit content creator, streamer and Toxic Gang patriarch, Physicalgamerz (PG), which is to say Ace's music is prepotent in my rotation in the face of appearance amount.
A year's time of working on something does not always bond the way you need it to. Carter Ace's latest song "Baggage" did. Produced by SoFly & Nius, guitar performed by Daniel Durant, keys by Pierre Melki and drums programmed by Oneil Carter, "Baggage" balances collaborative performance in order to mull and communicate everything going wrong.
Twinkly flute flares fly and occasionally riff around porcelain textured chords to operate a scintillating guiding melody into plopping drums in a pattern spelling out bruiser. A stooged rhythm guitar plugs a temperamental riff and progression in where it can fit, working on two fronts -- fortifying the dominating rhythm and opening the production where the melody comes back in and minor horn sections breach the spaces of the structure. The production is a lob for Oneil to bounce all over "Baggage" like a trampoline park.
Carter's vocals two-face their moods when it comes to the verse and hook, only both faces are different looks of the same cynicism. Deflated melodies sputter out with apathetic lyrics, igniting the runs and ending in a designed dud. His repeating hook sounds like an entire section of miserable isolated backing vocals, somewhat bringing to mind Sleepy Brown's tones in his backing vocals and hook on Big Boi's "The Way You Move." There is a groove and a style to Carter Ace's worries. The cacophony of broken talk box strings and matching key melodies for a bridge connects like the mental snap where the response is to just laugh.
"Baggage" is exactly that, all the crap we take with us wherever we go. But when your baggage sounds like this, it makes it feel that much lighter.
Watch "Baggage" below.
Video Cred: youtube.com
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
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