Album Review/ Alt Pop : Me and Melancholy’s ‘Open Your Eyes’
Make it stand out Me and Melancholy or M&M is the one man project of composer and artist, Peter Ehrling. The artist combines his love for deep emotion, experimentation, and exploration to create immersive sound banks. With just one song, you can extend into meaningful journeys and experiences. The best way to listen to his track is to seek out the layers, the nuances that lead us into these levels. His latest release is the ‘Open Your Eyes’ album, a modern electro pop collection that is plush and vivid with dark sensibilities. The contrast is so elating, a new way to present and experience the realities of melancholy.
The artist views the phenomenon of melancholy as a new world, ushering in accents that are futuristic, colorful and full of inspiring imagery. ‘Open Your Eyes’ introduces the collection. With its fresh splashes of synths, dynamic beats and colorful quotients stand in a nice contrast to the deep and melancholic vocal flow. We see similar themes coming together in tracks like ‘Are You Still here?’ and ‘Naive’.
‘Don’t leave me in the dark’, ‘You’re on your own’ and ‘A quiet place in the dark’ create a stringing brand of electro rock. The heavy riff textures are matched with angled beats, electronic grooves and a cohesive build that is dark and eccentric. The marker of this artist’s style lies in his ability to perceive webs of feeling buried deep and articulate them with his music.
‘Big Lie’, ‘There is a whisper in the wind’ and ‘Cold down to the bone’ all have experimental accents and elements to it. They especially manifest in the rhythm, in its scattering patterns, zig zagging propensities, all shimmering with feeling and sensibilities that feel both universal and personal at the same time. Listen Now!
