Silver Cup – Annabel Lee (2021)
Based on the original poem by Edgar Allen Poe, ‘Annabel Lee’ by Silver Cup is filled with all the emotions he wished to convey. Touching on love, letting go and grabbing every moment when it comes, it is full of remembrance, love and regret. Telling the story of two estranged lovers realising it is too late for their love, the single captures a spectrum of emotion.
The sibling duo of Hadley and Logan Nelson draws inspiration from their passion for music and the love of their home state. The siblings have been singing together for years and always felt that music was what they would do together. With a deep and unique sound, the duo explores the meaning of home, love, death and everything in between through their music.
‘Annabel Lee’ grabs your attention with the spoken words of the opening before the melody gets its hooks into you. The light tones are complemented by the deeper piano for an interesting movement. The beats tap against your senses from all directions for the verses before twanging lines enter. It is a very interesting melody due to the relative simplicity but as intriguing and enthralling as any complex arrangements.
The vocals resting on the melody uses a poetic lyricism to bring the emotions of the single to life. The duo’s vocals work together wonderfully to create a depth of sound against the melody. The primary vocals have you riding waves of love and yearning before you’re washed by sadder emotions. The second verse of the single is more melancholy than the first which is brought through wonderfully by the change in vocals with the siblings each taking one verse. Filtering through the lower levels of the single is the spoken word samples from the opening that just adds a little something to the single.
Silver Cup trade-off vocals against an intriguing melody to tell the story of ‘Annabel Lee’. The relative simplicity of the melody is what makes it so effective against the emotive power of the vocals. The duo each lead on one verse of the single before coming together on the chorus for a tale of longing and melancholy.
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