Ask Carol – Pressure’s On (2022)
With their past releases, Ask Carol have cemented their place in our hearts with their blues-rock sound. They are continuing to burrow into our brains with ‘Pressure’s On’, while offering up emotions and experiences of a more personal nature. Through the single, they reflect on the pressures they faced when they first released their musical project to the world.
Taking the insecurity they felt, they wrap it in something that is wonderfully universal, making the single easy for anyone to connect with. A journey through anxiety and insecurity, the single leads to unapologetic empowerment that is driven into your veins by intense vocals and driving melodics. By the end of the track, you are going to feel like you can take on the world, as long as Ask Carol is there with you.
‘Pressure’s On’ pulses to life with a driving guitar and the thump of drums. There is a building feeling to the melody that mimics the pressure that is the core of the single. The steady build of instrumentation through the verse coils inside you as you are led to the chorus, where there is a clear swell of tones, before a drop for the next verse. It is an intense melody that brings a hard rock touch to the track through the pulsing melodics. As the single progresses, there is an interesting movement that bursts through the pressure, offering you sonic empowerment and freedom. It is really uplifting in a heavy way and perfectly matches the vocals that cry for freedom from the pressures of the world.
As you feel the coiling and release of the melody, the vocals draw you into the story of the lyrics. Through the verse, the lyrics build on the tension growing in the melody and push down on your shoulders with the pressure you feel in different moments. Through the performance, a ball of anxiety and tension grows in the pit of your stomach, until you feel like you can’t do anything. As the chorus hits, it brings a burst of energy that breaks through the pressure and cracks the ball of tension, releasing you from its hold. This vocal movement wonderfully matches the melody as it fills you with empowerment emboldened by the music. As the vocals cry out against the melody, you are filled with the sense that you can easily take on the world.
Using a heavier rock sound, Ask Carol reflect on the pressure we all face at times, only to break free of its constraints and leave you feeling like you can take on the world with ‘Pressure’s On’. Both the melody and vocals bring a ball of tension to your stomach, only to burst free and shake off the chains that hold you down. It is an intense single that builds through the verses, for a wonderful release on the chorus and a shout of empowerment.
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