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Sansom – Call Me

Call Me” is the latest release by Sansom, an outstanding English singer-songwriter based in London. It’s his second piece of work this year, arriving as an adequate follow-up of “Burn The Bridges,” another excellent composition released earlier this year that you should also check out as soon as possible. Still, “Call Me” arrives with many innovations in songwriting, composing, arranging, and producing, showcasing the natural progression of such an incredible singer-songwriter. Lyrically, this song talks about love and relationships by exploring various sentiments, moods, situations, and circumstances. Therefore, it’s a highly relatable track that will immediately resonate with the broader auditorium. Sonically, the artist combines a singer-songwriter approach with several complementary music genres to illustrate such lush sonic imagery. Perhaps alternative rock comes to mind first, but you’ll notice how some of the finest sonic ingredients borrowed from indie and modern rock found their way into this sonic equation. Sansom uses all these additional elements as more than necessary enhancements, accentuations, decorations, and other details to elevate his music to new heights while simultaneously remaining loyal to the primary sonic direction. His music shines with fundamental qualities that meet all those trends of contemporary music production. Therefore, these experimentations with many different but complementary sonic ingredients resulted in a catchy, memorable, engaging alternative rock song that will immediately resonate not only with longtime fans of the genre but anyone who appreciates cleverly assembled and flawlessly performed music.

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As soon as you press play, you’ll notice that Sansom poured heart and soul into this composition. “Call Me” arrives with a perfect structure, garnered with many profoundly detailed segments, brilliant ideas, and marvelous orchestrations. Each vocal, sonic, and rhythmic maneuver has its place and purpose. You’ll notice how his soulful, passionate, sincere, confident, emotional, and powerful vocal performance elevates the entire song to an entirely new level, commands attention, and guides the listening apparatus from scratch to finish. His incredible vocal range seamlessly balances low, mid, and high notes from scratch to finish, emphasizing everything he intended to convey through this track. Besides decorating all those segments and instrumentations, these vocal harmonies contribute more than necessary emotional depth and complexity over an already intricate song structure. You’ll also notice those additional vocal layers, back vocals, and singalongs providing more anthemic vibes and spicing things up. In the meantime, you’ll notice how cleverly assembled guitar interplays shape a perfect backdrop for all the vocals to shine upon. You’ll hear how powerful riffs and catchy chord progressions resonate on one side while the other shines with beautiful themes, melodies, harmonies, and other sonic delicacies. It’s nearly mindblowing how all these layers articulate together without overwhelming each other. The generous servings of distortion create a raw, abrasive, gritty ambiance yet every tone is vividly hearable in the mix.

Of course, this song wouldn’t sound this heavy and powerful without equally impressive rhythm section. There are intricate, vividly hearable, warm-sounding basslines rumbling beneath all those guitar works and providing more than necessary heaviness, clarity, and depth while simultaneously binding the mentioned orchestrations with rhythmic patterns. These low-ends are rich, deep, dense, and heavy, contributing groove, power, and detail to this track. In the meantime, the exceptional drumming performance based upon tastefully arranged, flawlessly performed, well-accentuated, and energetic beats, breaks, fills, and other percussive acrobatics keeps everything in line while dictating groove and tempo. You’ll notice how every hit of the snare, kick of the bass drum, and splash over the cymbal cuts through the ambiance and offers more detail to the song. Sansom thought about everything while writing, composing, arranging, and producing this fine piece of sonic artistry. “Call Me” showcases all his talent, skill, knowledge, and experience. It’s a magnificent alternative rock song suitable for anyone who appreciates wisely composed and performed music. Sansom is one of those songwriters who know how to convey raw emotion through powerful music, so if you’re looking for emotionally charged rock music performed with sincerity and confidence, “Call Me” will be right up your alley. The single is available on all streaming platforms. Don’t miss it!

Djordje Miladinović

Hi, my name is Djordje and music is my passion. You'll probably find me at the gigs, in a local record store, distro or in front of my PC searching for some quality music to listen to. Do not hesitate to contact me. By becoming a Patron, you're keeping Thoughts Words Action alive. https://www.patreon.com/thoughtswordsaction

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