Salt Ashes – Didn’t See It Coming (2022)
With her single ‘Didn’t See It Coming’, Salt Ashes offers us her own take on the staple love song. Using a new approach to the topic, she combines dreamy vocals with electronic dance rhythms to get you moving while riding the waves of emotion. As she moves you into the colourful sound of the melody, the lyrics tap into a more personal narrative, giving us all something to connect with.
Since she burst onto the music scene, she has been captivating listeners with her dark synth-pop sounds. Swirling dark atmospheres into traditional pop sensibilities, she has built a unique sound that has landed her support from BBC Introducing and BBC Radio 1Xtra. Moving from strength to strength, she continues to evolve her sound while giving themes and topics her own twist.
‘Didn’t See It Coming’ hits you with the deep, bone-vibrating beats of electronic dance rhythms that transport you to the heart of a club. These beats fill your senses with the anticipation of a club with pulsing lights and the press of bodies. All of this drops when the vocals hit for a softer touch that hints toward the vulnerability of her performance. The dance beats do return, but their presence is not as overpowering as they were in the opening. They seem to merge with the pop sensibilities that fill the verses to create a more melodic vibe. The energy of the dancefloor hits again on the chorus as a feeling of heat rises and takes you along for the ride. Later in the track, the heaviness of the dance vibes comes back to get you moving like crazy. It is a dynamic movement that takes you from the heavy dance vibes, to a quiet corner for reflection and back to the pulse of light on the dancefloor.
As the music drops the heaviness of the club, Ashes’ vocals shine with almost ethereal beauty. The clarity and emotions of her performance is a wonderful contrast to the opening. Against the tender keys of the verses, she brings an honesty and vulnerability to her performance. There is a touch of wonder and awe to her performance as she feels the first touches of love. There is a slow building of the feeling and deep affection through the verses. This growth of feeling turns into the understanding that, while she is accepting of this turn of events, she was not expecting to feel this at all. It is a really great take on the suddenness of love.
Moving from heavy dance vibes to delicate vulnerability, Salt Ashes brings the growing feeling of love, the shock of feeling something you weren’t expecting and the bliss of it all to ‘Didn’t See It Coming’. Between the melody and the vocals, she weaves a tender tale of growing affection, before getting you moving on the chorus. The fusion of electronic dance and melodic pop is fantastic and keeps you hooked from start to finish
Find out more about Salt Ashes on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Spotify.
This artist was discovered via Musosoup #sustainablecurator
