Although Tirzah continues to work closely with Mica and Sey (who sang Reverenceof the title track), her approach to songwriting has changed drastically. Reverence compiled from 10 years' worth of material, with the intention of allowing each song to stand on its own. Here, he aimed to album-2021″>leave things unsaid: “The roughness, the precise registration, the time it takes to get into positions, it's a bit of a statement of how things feel live,” he said. In this way, Color gradient it has a certain organic quality: the mid-sentence throat clearing in “Beating” or the siren synths that light up Tirzah and Sey in “Hive Mind”. Accompanied by a pair of tracks that mimic capture and death, the album's sequence evokes life itself. The opening title track is Tirzah at her most unknown: abstract lyricism, Auto-Tuned vocals and unusual bird-like synth whistles signal a new beginning. On the other hand, the saccharine closer “Hips” hits all over the place, like a sudden rush to settle all your scores: “Cold takes hold of my mind/Cold hits my chest.”
But Tirzah leaves the middle tracks tantalizingly open, rootless like driftwood. She meditates on the existential, day-to-day life of a parent, bringing us into her new and ever-changing world. On “Recipe,” grainy synths drenched in reverb pierce her voice, as if washing away her worries. Or take “Crepuscular Rays,” a long, winding song in the album's second half that Tirzah says is fundamental to its structure. Moving through vocal manipulations and skeletal instrumentation, he joins the eerie production with the flesh of the vocals. In nature, sunrays are the angled rays of sunlight that appear near dusk or dawn. It is no coincidence that Tirzah named one of them Color gradient's defining pieces after a change phenomenon.
We tend to measure life by the dots on the timeline, but Color gradient he studies all the distance in between, absorbing every moment and creating space to calm down. The songs move between rumination and fascination, simulating the multiplicities of being alive. And while it's quite a feat to see these experimental songs come together, Tirzah doesn't try to be anything beyond her music. the miracle is in the process. While she remains a very private person, her music is generous even in its obscurity. As Color gradient highlights, love, family, intimacy are basic to her daily life. Fortunately, it allows us to participate in these family affairs, and the result is fascinating.
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