Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony? - Leonardo DaVinci
It's harmony that your soul and mind embraces again when listening to music. As sound surrounds you, only some melodies firmly resonate with you, get an immediate emotional response - whilst their approach is a smooth and soft one, whilst they slowly, carefully but steadily cling to you, these melodies eventually grab you with an intensity and force that overwhelms, that fully absorbs and stirs. It's these very melodies that are in chime with your mind and soul, it's music that leaves an imprint on your being and mesmerizes ... music that charms.
XXXXV. Fortress
'And those that come to hate, are screaming at the gate, trying to understand that we're royals of this land' - uplifting and vivifying, rich in spirit and soul is how Natalie McCool's new single 'Fortress' casts a spell over its listeners. Reviving childhood memories in a delightfully vibrant fashion, the award-winning alt-pop songstress (in 2013, Natalie was presented with the award for female artist of the year at the liverpool music awards) finds the right balance between graceful levity and infectious fortitude, treats us to a dynamically soaring, shiny anthem and thereby creates a jubilant musical refuge you promptly feel at home with, for its bright and beat-driven melodic nature welcomes you with an all-embracing, pleasantly tingling playfulness and warmth.
Natalie McCool performs feel-good-track 'Fortress' for Oto Sessions
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XXXXVI. If Something Don't Change
Cast off and ride the crest of indie waves along with liverpool's most glamorous pop-six-piece as they take a colourful and creative cruise towards 'catchy-and-clever'-island: the fourth installment of orchestra-like outfit, the Ragamuffins is brimful of quirky and sunny melodies ('Never In A Month Of Sundays' & 'Bursting Bubbles'), funky and groovy pep ('Taped Off The Radio' & 'I Just Got To Know'), haunting and blue melancholia ('What Was Beautiful' & 'Revolutionary Thinking'); it's music excitingly enterprising and easily remembered for featuring intelligent, powerful songwriting and rich, glowing sounds. Adopting a rather sorrowful tone without neglecting jaunty qualities, 'If Something Don't Change Soon' embraces everything (minus brass, that's missing here; the listener can still spot courageous and complex instrumental visions and patterns confidently carried out) what makes the band the bunch of keen musical musketeers they are; soulful vocals, yearning string charm and swirling harmonies tell of grave wistfulness, while the song's spiritedly surging, keys-propelled sound, supported by vivid drum pulse and brisk guitar play, kindles breezy tonal groove to rise. If this little something of a darling and quaint composition won't convince you to listen to the Ragamuffins' brand new record, 'Over On The Shipping Forecast', in total, then what will?!
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