Zero Frequency - Astronaut Song
Zero Frequency just dropped Volume 2 of The Ocean’s End, featuring the track “Astronaut Song.”
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Ian Smith is the musical architect behind Zero Frequency. As the mastermind and sole member of Zero Frequency, Smith plays guitars, bass, and keyboards on all the tracks. Once the melody and lyrics are set in place, Smith brings on board female vocalists.
The inspiration for The Ocean’s End, which will encompass three volumes when finished, arrived in the form of Netflix’s documentary about Kink.com, along with a biopic of Rocco Siffredi, the Italian porn star known as the “Italian Stallion,” who appeared in over 1,300 porn flicks. The idea of feverish sexual compulsions and their consummation intrigued Smith, who decided to recount the sexual emergence of a young woman.
Embodying 30-tracks and three albums, the musical tale is both innovative and wonderfully put together.
“Astronaut Song” features the luscious evocative voice of Riya.
The compelling mesmeric pressure of the music is elaborately suggestive and addictive.
The track opens on gleaming, gentle colors drifting and rippling on futuristic washes, and then flows into dark, shaggy tones as Riya’s exotic, sensual voice enters. The melody embraces elements of electro-pop, dream-pop, and alt-rock.
I love the vibrating grinding synth tone that vanishes on the bridge, and re-enters on the chorus and verses. Juxtaposed luminous, almost actinic flavors infuse the harmonics with two distinct layers, one sparkling, the other down and dirty, that coalesce into an elegant muscular suffusion of sonic color.
Riya’s voice, at once smoldering with erotic embers and dreamy, gliding timbres, imbues the lyrics with spectral gesticulations, wicked and ominous, yet alluringly entrancing, as if Odysseus’ Sirens beckon with their hypnotic tones from the distant rocky coast of Anthemoessa.
There’s a dark reckless dynamism surging through the harmonics, a kind of residual dark, misty coloration signifying sharp-edged desires and passions both urgent and focused.
“Astronaut Song” discharges an electrifying soundscape, full of glistening surges of tumescent colors and darker menacing resonance. The compelling mesmeric pressure of the music is elaborately suggestive and addictive.
