For the final two and a half months, a lot of the digital music neighborhood has been consumed by Skrillex and his unrelenting domination over the information cycle. He was dropping singles each week, introduced an album, introduced a present at Madison Square Garden, bought it out, dropped the album, performed a present in Times Square, performed the present at MSG, dropped one other album mid-show. It was unavoidable.
But from the start of the 12 months we’ve identified that there’s a lot extra. Beyond the albums we know and are trying ahead to, the wheels maintain turning — cue ODESZA, who this morning shocked followers with a launch of “Hopeful,” a monitor they are saying didn’t make it onto their final album however “encapsulated our time away from the world while writing the record.”
This one by no means made the album however we all the time felt it was particular and in a method encapsulated our time away from the world whereas writing the file. Hopeful is out now.https://t.co/Vq1ulPAulz
— ODESZA (@odesza) February 21, 2023
The music feels just like most of the synth-laden masterpieces of early M83, with echoing voices and slowly evolving melodies till the total weight of the emotion of the sounds crashes down. As the title suggests, it actually is a music that fills the listener with a sense of deep hope and chance.
Listen beneath.
Photo by way of Alexander Babarikin