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The late Chester Bennington described his depression as "Like a bad neighborhood, and I shouldn't go walking alone." In splendid serendipity, Kembe X's "I Was Depressed Until I Made This" intro song "Anyway" and critical cut "Voices" showed me what can happen when you take that walk and manage to make it back home safer having known what to actually look out for.
Kembe's "Anyway" sets a stage to tell his feelings and experiences as if his music is a TV show. Anime opening credit melodies power his vocal wails of resistance and imbalance. The lyrics purportedly personify his depression in the songwriting, playing bully ball with the real him to momentarily shatter any grip of self-recognition he has left, until the closing words of "You see the potential in me." "Anyway's" minimal production (keyboard and static) plant the bluest cloud over the song. Gentle chords make up this gazing melody into nothing and everything at the same time. The chords also preview their prominence throughout the entire album, strangely helping make the spiritually freeing "Voices" make sense.
"Voices" sounds like a major ingredient mixed in where Kembe X starts out on "Anyway." Produced by Wolf Beats, a chipmunk soul sample melodically untouched and slipping bass keep the music sounding lighter than the content it juggles, like being bipolar or alcoholism affecting the family. The "Talk Black" artist sings his at risk chorus like a frontman to a band. The multiple voices and ebbing flows hit very on the nose, but rightfully so. Hearing those type of vocal changes so directly read like an acknowledgment and eventual acceptance of how you are. Once you know that, and you're back home, you can continue to fully live once again.
Listen to "Anyway" & "Voices" below.
Lead Photo Cred: spotify.com
The late Chester Bennington described his depression as "Like a bad neighborhood, and I shouldn't go walking alone." In splendid serendipity, Kembe X's "I Was Depressed Until I Made This" intro song "Anyway" and critical cut "Voices" showed me what can happen when you take that walk and manage to make it back home safer having known what to actually look out for.
Kembe's "Anyway" sets a stage to tell his feelings and experiences as if his music is a TV show. Anime opening credit melodies power his vocal wails of resistance and imbalance. The lyrics purportedly personify his depression in the songwriting, playing bully ball with the real him to momentarily shatter any grip of self-recognition he has left, until the closing words of "You see the potential in me." "Anyway's" minimal production (keyboard and static) plant the bluest cloud over the song. Gentle chords make up this gazing melody into nothing and everything at the same time. The chords also preview their prominence throughout the entire album, strangely helping make the spiritually freeing "Voices" make sense.
"Voices" sounds like a major ingredient mixed in where Kembe X starts out on "Anyway." Produced by Wolf Beats, a chipmunk soul sample melodically untouched and slipping bass keep the music sounding lighter than the content it juggles, like being bipolar or alcoholism affecting the family. The "Talk Black" artist sings his at risk chorus like a frontman to a band. The multiple voices and ebbing flows hit very on the nose, but rightfully so. Hearing those type of vocal changes so directly read like an acknowledgment and eventual acceptance of how you are. Once you know that, and you're back home, you can continue to fully live once again.
Listen to "Anyway" & "Voices" below.
Lead Photo Cred: spotify.com
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