A riveting rocker from Matt C. White, “The Way Down” excels in its melding of fuzzy psychedelia and rollicking southern-rock charms. Recorded in his Brooklyn home studio, “The Way Down” comes ahead of an upcoming full-length, A Cosmic Year, which is performed, recorded, and mixed entirely by White. The dynamic rock entrancement on this track is bolstered by lyrics artfully conveying a foreboding sense of doom.
“I wanted it to feel the writer is bound for the bottom but somehow that last little bit of fall is the trippiest and brightest,” White says. “Almost like there’s a fear of the tumultuous fall ending but you want to ride it out because its prettiest near the bottom.”
“The Way Down” builds with charismatic intrigue, swelling from a stirring drum ensemble and slabs of hard-rocking guitar distortion into a delectably hazy psychedelic feeling. “I got a feeling I’m on the way down,” White’s debonair vocals enter, highlighted with bass and percussion as the sole accompaniment. A rousing, bluesy layering of guitars bursts forward thereafter, as wordless vocal effects ring out with bouncy infectiousness. “I’m racing to the end,” the climactic vocals continue; a wailing guitar buzz complements here, into another blast-off of hypnotic energy prior to the three-minute turn. Matt C. White’s “The Way Down” is a delectable psych-rocking success that builds with palpable momentum.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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