Alesso ft Matthew Koma - Years

After being number one on Beatport for well over a week, it only seems suitable that we look into this ground-breaking track. Alesso comes fresh from working with Swedish House Mafia’s Sebastian Ingrosso and has over the past year put himself well and truly on the map. He has remixed for the likes of Keane and collaborated with Dirty South.

Matthew Koma has contributed vocals for the newest music by Zedd and Fedde le Grand. The singer’s natural flair to adapt his vocals to multiple house melodies and ability to revitalize and enhance the genre is inescapable. The resulting outcome, in the form of Years, sees the birth of an exhilarating piece that alleviates pressures of the outside world and induces a state of clear clarity and solidity.

Piano notes shape the house melodies into wondrous tunnels of crystal like the sound of a rollercoaster smashing into a hundred chandeliers. The track, like the theme park ride, spins around with elaborate changes of pace and fast climaxes of house, but unlike a rollercoaster it doesn’t make you scream, but leaves you uplifted and empowered. The vocals flow around you with wispy tendrils wrapping you in their soft comfort and then finally collapse into the sound of breaking waves.

Years has been sculpted and nurtured into a beautiful piece of art which conjures an ambience of accumulative strength. It applies a soft touch, with sedate vocals and clarion piano notes, and then expands to the controlled pound of Alesso’s centrepiece production.

Rating: 10/10

 

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