A new single release from Teresa Suydam brings together a flurry of influence and soundscape with this beautiful and robust approach to crowd and chorus style vocals that feel culturally diverse along with vastness, ambiance, drive, color, and a blending of what I would call world music with a cinematic combination of alternative pop, electronic, and even a bit of industrial.
"That's So Indigenous" is a track that gives you a lot of what you don't expect. I mean this in the best way possible because there are so many beautiful and lush surprises around the corners of this song that you just can't turn away from it.
This track contains a soiree of electronic synths and keys that, at times, can give it an edgy and thick feel but at others, can make it feel floaty and smooth.
It's the combination of approaches and styles that makes this track work and come through with such a unique approach.
The arrangement to this song is beautiful and really hits hard exactly when it wants to so the whole track has this particular energy to it that makes it feel alive and breathing the whole way through.
It is spirited and in a way, uplifting but also has that dark edginess in its underbelly that kind of sticks throughout the song's course.
You can tell there was a lot that went into the creation of this track. There was plenty of attention to detail in the composition, recording process, and arrangement but, it also comes through with a ton of heart and a little bit of fire.
This is a track that is most certainly unlike plenty of songs you've heard before and its genre-bending approach is borderline brilliant because it brings on an entirely different atmosphere.
This atmosphere is all its own and once you're there you don't want to leave.
There are layers of vocals here that come in with these beautiful textures along with all of that electronic element.
I think that's what hits hardest about this song. Aside from its spirit and heart, it's got this beautiful set of textures that are layered and laced in and out of each other throughout the songs unfolding and you really need to listen to this with headphones to soak it in all the way.
The production approach to this is astounding. It's something that stands on its own two feet and brings together those melodic points along with this high-octane sort of energy but it's all very dynamically balanced.
This is outside the box and was created with fewer boundaries than you may be used to which I think, is awesome because that's what music is going towards.
I think Teresa is a bit ahead of the game in terms of creating music with no walls built around it and being able to make something with its own atmosphere that feels in the moment, spirited, and alive.
There's no way you can put a genre on this song. There's not a singular genre that this falls under. This is a new breed of pop and electronic music that, again, blends in world, alternative, and so much more into the mix using sounds and textures along with that songwriting approach that feels cinematic and full-bodied.
This is a song you need to listen to more than once to catch everything. It feels like it all happens so fast.
When you listen to it two or three times you start to find yourself catching things you missed that first time around.
I just adore songs like that because you can get so engulfed and involved in them.
This song has a beautiful and unique way of wrapping itself around you and keeping you right where it wants to.
Again, I would suggest listening to this with headphones on so you can really catch everything and feel that energy in your bones and body.
Either way, take a listen to this track when you can and remember where you heard it first.
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