Watch Me Breathe - Feel Alright
From Santa Cruz, California, progressive pop-rock outfit Watch Me Breathe just released the music video for “Feel Alright.”
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Speaking about the song, frontman Jake Ward says, "This was one of those tracks where I knew it was special right away. I was jumping and dancing around the studio like a lunatic because I could just clearly feel that we'd struck something new and exciting. The vibe of the song is somewhat unlike anything we've made before; there's something about the wildness and the darkness of the whole thing that I'm extremely excited about and proud of."
Initially a solo project, the band came together in 2017, as a vent to purge frustration. Ward explains, “As a solo artist, I just got fed up with trying to write music only to please other people. Watch Me Breathe is really an experiment that says: what would I write if nobody else was listening?”
Watch Me Breathe dropped their debut album, The Lighter Side of Darkness, in 2018, amassing beau coup views on YouTube and more than 50,000 streams on Spotify.
Ward’s voice, deliciously rasping yet richly sonorous, infuses the lyrics with tantalizing sumptuous flavors, seething with aching passion.
According to Ward, “I just kind of suck at collaborating,” accounting for why he writes, records, mixes, and masters each song in his home studio. When performing live, the band assumes a power trio configuration, with Ward (guitar, vocals), Ryan Green (bass), and brother Carl Ward (drums).
“Feel Alright” opens on penetrating piano colors and clinking accents flowing into a potently intoxicating rhythm. A shimmering guitar enters, expanding the tune’s harmonic hues with jangly washes of sound. The solo features a glistening piano shifting to a tasty percussive slice, trembling with surging pulses.
Ward’s voice, deliciously rasping yet richly sonorous, infuses the lyrics with tantalizing sumptuous flavors, seething with aching passion. It’s a sui generis voice, beguiling, rife with clusters of smoldering chaffing timbres.
“You and I / Drive all night / Till we finally feel alright / Feel alright / Sometimes I hang up the phone / I don't want you to know / I don't want, I don't want you to know / That I am all alone.”
Yowza! “Feel Alright” offers distinctively original music imbued with elusive familiar blushes, making it one of the better singles so far this year.
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