(Model: Alexis Felix)
Walk with a fine-tuned moral compass. Always. And don't forget to attach your emotion detector as well. Empathy is lacking, and having empathy can help weather many things. And if I never heard what having it sounds like before, I recognize it now after undergoing the gravity from Carter Ace's "Raining In LA."
After being away for six months it is an understatement to say things have changed since the last Carter Ace release. So given the current tone of the world it would take a song indicative of the times to part the clouds.
Raining In LA doesn't quite feel of this time. Written and produced by Carter the segments of the song expresses emotions, each on the side of different genres. Josh Feliciano's guitar, from the fishing chords and riffs right down to the breakdown, is playing the blues. The flickering blues licks are face scrunches of good disgust. Nathan Serot's trumpet section and Jason Ayala's sax work infuse an unpredictable accent to the otherwise uniform melodies and inching rhythm, a rhythm Quincy Holland's tumbling drums and percussion conduct rather peacefully. The production leaves you exposed as if you unknowingly volunteered to get up on stage, but once you did, you did the damn thing. Because once up there, you had no choice but to perform. And Carter did that. He performed.
Carter's blinding vocals don't do it with a ridiculous register, runs or even power. He does it from the beginning of the song accompanied by prideful harmonies. He does it with digestible, leveled melodies and vocal riffs that catch the light to forge hope when paired with the songwriting. The chorus on "Raining In LA" comes with a universally understood feeling I can't shake or properly explain. It is just a soft reminder that when it rains no one is exempt from getting wet. And I suppose, for the duration of this song, we can all understand something that happens to one another.
Listen to "Raining In LA" below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com/ noahkentis (via Instagram)
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