Delivering every thing it says on the titular tin by means of the sonorously enriching tones of each sonic spectre within the single, Catharsis calls for your give up, compels you to sink into the evocatively weighted manufacturing and permit the progressions to summary the load out of your soul. With divinity oozing from the piano keys into the ethereal grace of her vocal traces, AILEN doesn’t simply compose—she conjures.
Drawing affect from Pink Floyd, Queen, and Steven Wilson, the London-based different and progressive rock artist has made her mark alchemising hybrids of 70s prog, symphonic rock, and cinematic grandeur. Her thought-provoking lyricism and larger-than-life preparations dissect existential loneliness, social corruption, and the delicate threads of human identification.
Catharsis is a consoling panorama in sound which artfully cuts above AILEN’s contemporaries. The prog rock inclinations wait till you’re off guard, discovering the proper time to chop a mournful electrical guitar solo by means of the euphonic bliss of the one earlier than a percussive construct heightens the strain. ALIEN’s vocals, which observe, are sufficient to deliver you to the brink of tears, grounding the composition’s transcendence with uncooked, unwavering emotion.
Catharsis is now accessible to stream on all main platforms, together with Bandcamp.
Overview by Amelia Vandergast