Thanks to urbandictionary.com , I now know that “ Safia is a very attractive girl who is independent. I also know that I need to spend less time on that site.
This is the second time in the past six months that this electronic trio from Canberra has caught my attention. The first time was with the track ‘ Stretched And Faded ’, that carried the cut-and-paste trademarks of Flume but with a far more expansive palette of sounds, which is largely due to them being a three-piece of drums, guitars and a snythesiser.
The track works well was because it carries an emotional soul that’s often missing in that form of fairly straight-forward electronic music, and the title of their return single ‘ Listen To Soul, Listen To Blues ’ comes as a slight coincidence.
Built around Ben Woolner ’s slowly paced RnB vocal loop, if the track didn’t carry thick wave of crashing snyth chords upon its second half, it could’ve been easily been a pop ballad. That simplicity is where Safia ’s cross-over appeal lies.
Stay tuned here at THE RIPE , because a video clip is also on the way.
SAFIA – Stretched & Faded
WORDS BY Marcus Rimondini
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