Synth Single Review: “POV” by GRAEDA

by Karl Magi

GRAEDA’s “POV” starts with an ethereal sonic veil before a steady drumbeat and rising shadows move below the hovering distortion as an uneven percussive ticking moves with notes that exhale in a gently haunting breath. An anchoring rhythm comes in to support drifting sounds that are split by radiant tones, creating a chromatic glow in the hazy atmosphere. 

Images rise in my mind, pictures of mysterious landscapes, half seen in dreams and the misty luminosity of moonlit fog. A long line of settling sounds brushes past as the percussion fades and peace permeates everything. 

Uncertainty, tentative emotion and a broken sensation balance with tender touches in a way which affects me strongly in the feelings it generates. Rhythmically pulsating underpinnings move with a synthesizer that evokes growing morning light, making me feel as though I am waking from a mournful dream, before the track ends.