A recent album release from Ekynoxx delivers a soiree of Electro pop soundscapes, all delivered with a lush and robust character, colorful undertones, and a vast approach that combines classic elements of synthwave and synth-pop with refreshing and newer approaches of EDM and electronic dance pop music. It all comes together to build an atmosphere that you end up really falling in love with.
The Galactic Love album is packed with personality. Along with that comes a vivacious and almost bubbly approach but with this cinematic backbone that brings along with it a touch of edginess and this combination works wonders for the record as a whole.
This record features a ton of brilliantly and well-thought-out tones and textures delivered with synths, keys, and more and I think that this electronic and digital driving sonic soundscape works wonders in terms of letting you get engulfed and everything that it has to offer and eventually even washed away with it.
This is a wondrous combination of old and new-school approaches with that vintage '80s synth-pop element in a lot of the songs but also with that expansive underbelly that gives things a vaster and more layered tonality at times.
You can tell that there was plenty of attention to detail during the creation of this record, but it also never loses that heart or that personality that it starts with in the first place, and this may be the most important aspect of the entire thing.
I absolutely love movies of the '80s because I am indeed a child of the '80s and I can tell you right now that a lot of this record seems to really nail that cinematic classic aesthetic so incredibly well that it gives me bouts of nostalgia.
A lot of these tracks are synth-pop bangers, and they do such a good job of putting together those atmospheres and worlds for you to get into the groove with, dance with, put your hands in the air and sing along with, or just really sit back and soak in.
The vocal approach is outstanding from beginning to end. This also adds to that combination of classic and vintage sounds with new ones. She nails the feel and sound of classic pop songs but also brings it into that sort of newer synthwave approach as well, so you get all the different versions of new and old coming together seamlessly throughout this record from both vocals and music alike.
This is the kind of album that you listen to all the way through from start to finish because if you listen to only one or two tracks, you may get a little idea or just of what you can expect but it does not give you the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole and this is important.
This is an album with layers. Lyrically, musically, texturally, and sonically.
You want to be able to soak all of this in because you end up floating alongside everything you hear.
This is also a massive 17 tracks and almost an hour in length so there's definitely plenty to be able to actually soak in and one of the best ways to do this is by listening with headphones.
Listening to it loud works as well but if you use headphones to listen to this album and you give yourself that little hour of space to soak it in, then you hear all the extra notes and textures that flow through the ethers of some of these songs. It's important to be able to let that atmosphere surround you.
You're meant to be engulfed in a record like this one. It's an escape and it's a damn good one at that.
There's something for all fans of electronic music throughout the unfolding of this album and once you get through the first three or four tracks you know that you can begin to expect some of the unexpected and I can tell you right now that there are surprises around the corners of this record.
But again, all corners of electronic music are covered in different ways throughout this release and fans of EDM, synthwave, synth-pop, vintage pop, outrun, dance-pop can you put your, and more will certainly love a lot of what this really has to offer.
But don't just take my word for it, have a good listen to this album and remember where you heard it first.
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