Synth Single Review: “Better Days" by Andrew Corbin

by Karl Magi

Andrew Corbin’s “Better Days" is full of serenity and hope. The song commences with a reverberating beat and snapping percussion before a metallic sweep is joined by a shaker. The bass rebounds as a descending sound is joined by a brief voice-over and the haunting pipes levitate with a digitally trailing sensation.

Andrew Corbin’s breathy voice traces through the music with a melody that is delicate and affectionate while open-sounding notes drift with exhaling elegance. The fragility of the vocals captures me with their surrounding tenderness while the underlying bass is joined by crisp drums. In the distance, softly swirling notes wrap around each other and the luscious bass rumbles.

The bouncing drums add fullness while Andrew Corbin’s vocal performance is hushed and full of calming smoothness as it glides and bends. The entire song exudes meditative qualities as Andrew Corbin breathes out warmth and encouragement before the music comes to a halt, choral voices fading away.

The narrator says, “I bet you know the way home to a better place” and he wants to follow the song’s subject “into better days.” It’s “another moment in time, lost in a memory,” another image in his mind that “fractures in front of me.” He’s found a passage through time, “music at night,” a “message wrapped in a mystery” and he follows the lights toward the hope waiting just ahead.