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| Hiatus feat. Smoke Feathers - Change Up |
HIATUS feat. SMOKE
FEATHERS – Change Up
RELEASE: 4th June
So this is the first collaboration between electronica
producer Hiatus and indie folksters Smoke Feathers and I really hope it’s not
the last. Lead song Change Up is a sumptuous slice of mellowed out electronica with
a hypnotically simple piano riff and a haunting vocal performance from Smoke
Feathers’ Matt Falloon. To describe the music here is almost pointless because
to analyse what you hear would be to completely miss the point. The best thing
to do is close your eyes and the feeling and the atmosphere form around your
head. It’s a hard one to place but for me it brings back that feeling of being
the first one up on a sunny morning at a festival. Or the feeling you get when
you finally realise you’re over the girl/boy that broke your heart. Or waking
up and thinking it’s Monday but realising it’s actually Saturday! Rare and
beautiful moments. It’s optimism, hope and a sense of possibility all rolled up
in to a single song.
Maybe it’s something that Falloon has picked up within his
ridiculously packed life so far. Among other things the crooner has worked for
two years as a trainee reporter in Guyana, chased hurricanes in Jamaica and
travelled to the Gulf with Gordon Brown. The man must have seen some beautiful
and wondrous things in his short years and I, for one, am grateful that he has
managed to be part of recreating that experience for my ears. There are two
more tracks which don’t quite match up (Book of Prayer and Flickering) but are
still worth a listen. There is also a video for Change Up and it is definitely
worth a watch but get your ears around the song first and let it take you back
to a very specific point in your life.