Deep Water - Diving
Meet Deep Water, a dream-pop/indie-pop band from Chengdu, China, who, at the beginning of December, dropped an exquisitely amazing album, entitled Diving.
Deep Water
And that’s all there is, folks. Googling Deep Water reveals zero gen, except for a few oblique references to the band on a site called Radii.
What I do know is this: Deep Water’s music is innovative, alluring, and chock-full of pale sparkling colors and beguiling sumptuous surfaces.
The album embraces seven-tracks, starting off with “After The Party,” which opens on industrial-flavored synths and rumbling percussion flowing into a deliciously chugging rhythm. Soft, ethereal vocals infuse the lyrics with wistful melancholic savors. Whoever the vocalist is, she definitely has stellar tonal chops.
What makes Deep Water so superb is their distinct sonic tiers, each uncomplicated when standing alone, but when all the tiers are arranged and posed, the result is enchanting.
Best tracks on the album include “Wild Thoughts,” riding plinking guitars topped by mystical synths. Scrumptious vocals drip with gentle velvety textures juxtaposed against the throbbing bassline. “Grab My Hair” features thrumming colors, followed by hallucinogenic-feeling vocals, devout and lusciously creamy. Darker guitars enter, imbuing the tune with ominous sensual scents.
“Bind Me” travels on flitting spacy energy. When the gleaming guitar arrives, the tune takes on tighter hues exuding industrial new wave touches. “Run Out” delivers glinting percolating tones atop a plump bassline and crunching drums. The diverse sonic layers inject the tune with infectious nuances of coloration; the blend of surface shades, although simple and austere on one level, hook up to form a delectable soundscape.
The last track, “He Said Nothing More,” presents oozing dyes of color, viscously flowing. Slightly discordant tones give the harmonics oblique contagion, both captivating and edgy, as if nerve endings are shuddering and twitching in anticipation.
What makes Deep Water so superb is their distinct sonic tiers, each uncomplicated when standing alone, but when all the tiers are arranged and posed, the result is enchanting.
Deep Water serves up innovative dream-pop discharging a sense of imminence, proximate colors, and languidly sensual vocal textures.
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