Album Review/ Electro-Pop : Red Skies Mourning’s ‘Myosotis’

Red Skies Mourning is a musician and an alt pop artist with an electric pulse. His ability to activate or animate human emotions and experiences with vibrant frequencies of music is remarkable. To have such a free and freeing command over the language of music proves his skill and virtuoso. When you talk about his vision, there is a horizon of themes that he explores, especially with his new album, ‘Myosotis’. The fifteen-track collection crafts a contemplative sphere, delighted by streaking synths, anthemic vocals, and an irrepressible groove. The ambiences he creates link into each other to form an expansive continuum of the theme. 

The name of the album derives its significance in light of the heartbreak themed tracks that make up the release. It is a plant of the genus that includes the forget-me-nots. Shaping melancholy into such vivid colors and textures can seem out of place, at least as an idea on paper. But Red Skies Mourning breathes sentiment, vulnerability, candor, and authenticity into it. 

‘Already Know’ introduces the collection. With its dynamic beats, rising vocals, and the ready shimmer of neon synths, it is a contemplative halo of energy and music. We see these neon-textured, neon-colored, neon-powered soundscapes; each one a whole different gradient than the last. The tracks, ‘Obvious’ and ‘Satellite’ have sequences and sound profiles that are reminiscent of Coldplay. That feeling of magic that marks that band can be seen flowering through these soundscapes as well. 

Plush, electric, but soft and curving. So full of life and infused beauty. That romanticism is quite lovely. Even ‘Over and Outta Here’ carries arcs of these magical, surrealist flows, but its overall make ties into tracks like ‘Alone Nowhere’ or ‘See You There’. The tracks have elastic rhythms, so fluid that they adapt intuitively to suit the grandeur or reflective cues of the vocals. 

When you listen to Red Skies Mourning, all the music seems to form in a sphere that is distinct and completely of itself. Emotive motifs are conveyed with creative insight and beautifully decorated soundscapes. Interpretations of melancholy take on such novel directions. 

In ‘How Do I Sleep’, the stories paint a picture of an aching, lonely, broken heart. Stringing the intimacy, depth, and feel-good frames of the relationship, the artist brings the theme out of the listener. There’s always that sense of infinity, a semicolon, a hope that it will indeed become revived. That final curve of sentiment is always positive, vibrant, and looking for beauty. Listen Now! 

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