Skip to main content

Maverick Ad

Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Cover Stories
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Legacy Awards
  • Past Covers
  • Weekly Archive
postmoderndisco's Latest Release 'Anthesis' Is A Mesmerizing Journey into the World of Lo-Fi Electronic Music

Breadcrumb

  • Home
  • postmoderndisco's Latest Release 'Anthesis' Is A Mesmerizing Journey into the World of Lo-Fi Electronic Music
postmoderndisco
Fri Jun 23, 2023
Cashbox Canada

Toronto-born, Valencia, Spain-based lo-fi, electronic artist, postmoderndisco’s new track, “Anthesis,” follows a metaphor for life through the lens of a beautiful blooming flower. Watch it on YouTube here:

 “The song is a musical soundscape written during a period of writer’s block and struggle with perfectionism,” postmoderndisco said.

She began writing “Anthesis” in 2015, shortly after her debut EP Chasing Memories, came out. However, as the growth process goes, she ran into some hiccups and roadblocks with the composition of the transformative time. 

The creation of “Anthesis” parallels life. postmoderndisco said the tune took eight years to create. She ran into roadblocks and speedbumps with the mixing process, so she enlisted some producer friends from Berklee to catalyze the production. She also turned to her classical music experience for inspiration, and studied bands that fuse electronic and alternative genres, such as Purity Ring and Son Lux.

“‘Anthesis’ first began as a place to experiment with creating textures by sampling and manipulating acoustic instruments (as heard at the start of the song), blending them until they were no longer identifiable,” she said. 

The tune opens with billowing production, introducing the first stage of a flower's life. Throughout the next several seconds, windy synth percussion wisps through the opening, and a haunting, ethereal vocalist lends light hums and shoegaze lyrics to the dynamic track. Around the one-minute mark, light crescendoing keys erupt into a beat drop filled with shoegaze sounds and triplet percussion beats.

Haunting flutes back the otherworldly vocals throughout the track as postmoderndisco relays a story about a flower's delicate yet wondrous life.

Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/track/3BVgYUs8zjQn9W1aEkn1K0?si=0df6a0305426436b&nd=1

 The song is a “powerful and emotive song that inspires listeners to embrace their personal growth and overcome their internal struggles. The use of flower blooming as a metaphor for personal growth and the invitation to enter a different dimension through music create a unique and engaging experience that aims to resonate with many people,” she stated.

Almost a decade later, “Anthesis” offers a masterful meditation on the circle of life. 

“‘Anthesis’ leans on its ethereal layers of haunting vocals, soaring strings, and downtempo beats, postmoderndisco wishes to give listeners a different dimension and space to escape from the busyness of life and be rejuvenated,” she said.

postmoderndisco is a second-generation Chinese-Canadian musician. She meshes her Western upbringing with her Chinese heritage to influence her discography and strives to serve as a representative Asian female voice in music. To enhance the ambient atmosphere, she incorporates various instruments into live performances, like French Horn, violin, flute, and clarinet. Currently, postmoderndisco is pursuing her master’s degree in screen scoring at Berklee College of Music.

postmoderndisco.com

Reviews
Album
postmoderndisco
Month: Sep 2022
Laurie LeBlanc Getting Ready For The Good Times, Country Singer Laurie LeBlanc…
Slade Slade Asks You To "Call Me' Like Blondie Did All Those Years
A Short Walk To Pluto A SHORT WALK TO PLUTO Embraces The Right To Happiness In “You Are Not The Only One…
Olenka Pop Singer/Songwriter Olenka Relives Sweet Revenge And A Scorned…
Sammy Duke Folk Rocker Multi-Instrumentalist Sammy Duke Encourages Empathy on…
The Northwest The Northwest Are Looking To The “Shoreline’ For New Single Inspiration
Zenia Marshall Canadian TV/Film Star And Breakout Indie-Alt Pop Artist Zenia Marshall…
Multi-Honoured Hamilton, ON Blues Artist André Bisson is in a Total Funk with "Missing You" Multi-Honoured Hamilton, ON Blues Artist André Bisson is in a Total Funk…
Caribbean-Dutch Canadian Rapper Big Lou Empowers Listeners With Messages of Self-Acceptance In Hard-Hitting Single, “Tayrona” Caribbean-Dutch Canadian Rapper Big Lou Empowers Listeners With…
Indigenous Rocker Joey Nowyuk Looks Back To The Past With “Inuugama” Covers Album Indigenous Rocker Joey Nowyuk Looks Back To The Past With “Inuugama” Covers…
Julian Taylor Julian Taylor Releases New Album “Beyond the Reservoir”
Lady Charles Canadian Pop Artist Lady Charles Imagines A Healing, Gender-…
Lisa Richard Lisa Richard’s New Single Has “News You Can Use” With Live Off The Floor Video
Ollee Owens Ollee Owens Releases New Album “Cannot Be Unheard”
Propter Hawk Toronto’s Propter Hawk Gets Rowdy With First Single “Theatre Of The Whole World…

Pagination

  • First page « First
  • Previous page ‹ Previous
  • …
  • Page 77
  • Page 78
  • Page 79
  • Page 80
  • Current page 81
  • Page 82
  • Page 83
  • Page 84
  • Page 85
  • …
  • Next page Next ›
  • Last page Last »

CEO/PUBLISHER/EDITOR IN CHIEF
SANDY GRAHAM

email:sandygrahamemg@gmail.com 

Canadian Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Don Graham
email: dongrahamwriter@gmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada and Global
Lisa Hartt
email: lisahartt87@hotmail.com

Contributing Journalist - Canada 
Michael Williams
email: greydread@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

International Journalists:

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Malin Osth
email: malin@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - Sweden
Jonas Tancred
email: jonas@musicdays.se

Contributing Journalist - USA
Rob Durkee 
email: rockster2746@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Developer/Technical Support
Chris Wardman

email: info@chriswardman.com
website: chriswardman.com

Cashbox Cover Design and Graphic Artist
Jain McMillan

email: jainmcmillan@gmail.com

Contributing Photographer 
Tracey Savein - South Paw Productions
southpawproductions@rogers.com

 

 

 

Footer menu

  • Home
  • Features
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Cashbox Archive
  • Issue Archive
  • Past Covers