If you paid close attention to our pages in the last couple of years, you probably stumbled upon Luke Tangerine‘s music, realizing he’s an unstoppable music producer and musician whose songs resonate on an entirely different sonic spectrum than anything you could hear on the contemporary scene. The way he blends different but complementary styles goes beyond comprehension, and each new composition is an impressive amalgam based upon a tremendous collision between jaw-dropping creativity, talent, skills, knowledge, and experience. In the music landscape where songs usually repeat the same old aesthetics, arrangements, and other schemes played a long time ago, Luke Tangerine always stands out with his innovative approach while simultaneously paying homage to the past. His fascinating understanding of modern tendencies of the scene harmoniously clashes with his limitless knowledge of music, crafting sonic pieces that resonate with the crowd on a profound level. This time, Luke Tangerine has teamed up with British indie musician and producer NDGE for a marvelous composition that will immediately get under your skin. “To Be Yours” shines with everything you dearly love about eighties music yet resonates with sound quality that meets all the trends in contemporary music production. Perhaps synth pop comes to mind first, but there are also fundamental elements of synth wave, dream pop, and indie pop lurking around. Together, Luke Tangerine and NDGE crafted a masterpiece that will immediately resonate with even the pickiest music enthusiasts.
From the onset, this composition wraps around your listening apparatus, grabs you by the collar, and transports you into another realm where pleasant vocal harmonies, majestic sonic maneuvers, and moderate rhythmic patterns reign supreme. “To Be Yours” is such an incredible experience, a journey through a vast space built on everything you dearly love about synth music. But first, let’s talk about NDEG’s excellent vocal performance. His soulful, passionate, sincere, confident, emotional, powerful vocal performance perfectly suits all these soundscapes. He elevates this track to an entirely new level while commanding attention and guiding the listening apparatus from scratch to finish. Besides emphasizing all those segments and orchestrations, NDGE contributes emotional depth, making this song such a pleasant listening experience worth repeating again. His voice seamlessly glides over low, mid, and high notes yet it somehow offers another layer of calm, soothing, relaxing, ethereal vibes that define this composition. There are no doubts that this British indie musician and producer nailed it in all possible ways. As usual, Luke Tangerine delivers premium sonic maneuvers to the table with tremendous synth works dominating the most. He fully stacked this composition with memorable leads, catchy themes, engaging melodies, otherwordly harmonies, and other fascinating orchestrations that define “To Be Yours” in so many ways. These synth works act as a backdrop for NDGE’s vocal harmonies but are also responsible for deeply emotional, complex, otherworldy sonic output that keeps listeners tied to the seat from scratch to finish.
Beneath all these synth works, an equally impressive low-ends provide more warmth, depth, and heaviness. These basslines rumble with such precision and finesse without overwhelming synths. They are luxuriant, deep, dense, and heavy enough just to provide more groove, detail, and warmth without spoiling any layer. Luke Tangerine is one of those artists who thoroughly thinks about every element while writing and composing his music, so all these layers articulate harmoniously without being overly dominant. In the meantime, the excellent rhythmic patterns are based upon perfectly programmed, well-accentuated, moderate beats, breaks, fills, and other percussive acrobatics keep the entire structure in line while dictating groove and pace. Each hit of the snare, kick of the bass drum, and splash over the cymbal cuts through the calm atmosphere, contributing more complexity to an already intricate song structure. By merging modern aesthetics and nostalgic sound, Luke Tangerine and NDGE constructed an incredible synth pop number where emotion, melody, and harmony meet groovy rhythms. They poured heart and soul into it, resulting in one of the finest synth-pop tracks you’ll hear this year. “To Be Yours” is a fine piece of sonic artistry where brilliant ideas, marvelous musicianship, and tremendous experience of Luke Tangerine and NDGE shine in the limelight. Therefore, you should immediately place “To Be Yours” on your radar. The single is available on all streaming platforms. Don’t miss it!
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