Good Morning to you! You’re tuned into One Track At A Time and you are reading the words of Jacob Braybrooke, and I’m here to present yet another daily track to your eardrums on the blog, since it’s always my day-to-day pleasure to write up about a different piece of music every day! One voice that you need to hear right now is the husky vocals of Eddington Again, a multi-instrumentalist and producer who fans of Yves Tumor or Alfa Mist are likely going to get a little kick out of. Currently based in Berlin, but native to Los Angeles, Eddington Again’s music typically dabbles in sound collage elements with Post-Rock and Noise-Rock influences to form a crescendo of Experimental Rock soundscapes which tackle a diversity of personal and intimate themes courageously. Eddington began their musical career as a crucial figure in LA’s queer underground, and they have cited. Bloc Party, SZA, Santigold and Sampha as a handful of their biggest influences. In addition to this, they have performed alongside Flume, Charli XCX and Dam Funk on the live touring circuit. Support has also poured in from i-D Magazine, Mixmag and Boiler Room 4:3 over the years since Eddington first surfaced in 2015 as an emerging artist. One of their strongest singles is ‘Petrify’, which was recently featured on an episode of BBC Radio 6 Music’s ‘The New Music Fix’ curated by Tom Ravenscroft – the son of the late-great BBC Radio 1 host John Peel. It arrives via Friends Of The New – a division of Majestic Casual. Let’s check it out below.
‘Petrify’ was accompanied by a cinematic music video that was directed by fellow LA-native artist 011668, a close friend of Eddington’s back home, and Eddington brings context to the single by stating, “Petrify is a story based on experiences dealing with fragility in lovers and the people closest to me”, in a press note, explaining, “Not having a place to fully be transparent about my past, gifts and heightened awareness leading me to dwell and cultivate my power alone in the dark”, in their own words. Starting off with a dark tone, Eddington pulls us into their haunting flood of emotions with “I don’t wanna petrify you, I just want to tell you my secret” with a half-spoken and half-rapped delivery that is paired to a driving, but ethereal, guitar sample and a percussive drum work-out that is played on a loop continuously, conveying the disorientation that Eddington feels when they expose others to their own fragility. Shuffling hi-hats and a snappy, stuttering Snare pick up the nervous energy of Eddington’s voice that leaps and bounds around a hazy Baritone vocal that floats between reverb-drenched guitar strums to the motion of soulful R&B beats that complement his vocals with a mix of tender emotion and a sense of danger. The abstract visuals of the attached music video are compelling too, but there’s a great mix of straight to-the-point lyrics and a brisk pace to the instrumentation that make the emotive layers feel convincing, with Eddington’s vocals eventually breaking into a lovesick croon as the sonic production becomes more energized and the rhythm becomes a floating mix of underground dance influences and light Hip-Hop intricacies. Overall, ‘Petrify’ represents Experimental Pop at it’s most effective, with the track showcasing the knack for emotive lyrics that Eddington has and a very unique fusion of influences that bound together to create an intimate, gripping single.
Thank you for checking out my latest post on the blog, and please feel free to join me again tomorrow as we take an in-depth look at one of the weekend’s hottest new album releases by sampling a single from it and, this time, we’re listening to a single that was recently promoted by KEXP’s Song Of The Day podcast. The album itself comes from a bold Danish film composer who once headlined the Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival in front of 60,000 people with a set design created by Henrik Vibskov.
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