Zenari didn’t maintain again when penning Silhouette. The Boulder-based indie rock outfit turned soul-bearing into an artwork type, not with summary indulgences or pretence, however with hooks that maintain you in a trance and lyricism that opens floodgates you didn’t know have been primed to interrupt.
For the serotonin-deprived, the jangly guitar licks are a divine technicolour intervention; beneath the blissfully temperate tonality, there’s a deeper vein of emotive magnetism due to the conduit of soul vocalist, Alex Wirth. But nothing in regards to the consolingly affecting sensibility of the discharge feels pressured. The compassion that exudes from the lyrics and vocals resounds as if it was laborious fought for.
Silhouette is a testomony to how everlasting happiness is as unnatural to the human thoughts as telekinesis, however by striving to deliver extra color into your world, you deliver brighter hues into your thoughts’s horizon. It’s a shocking launch which aches with sincerity, blossoms by way of instrumental proficiency and pulls you into its emotionally charged core by way of the juxtaposition of bittersweet regretful lyricism and the chameleonic instrumentals which ignite round funk motifs.
Zenari’s frontman permits his roots within the therapeutic arts to bleed by way of with redemptive urgency. Alongside Jeff Munn on drums, Ethan Chisholm on bass, Ben Scott on keys and Zoe Gomez-Quiatt lending harmonies, Zenari attain for the soul with a quiet energy and chip away on the hardest edges of the day.
Silhouette is now obtainable to stream on all main platforms, together with Spotify.
Evaluation by Amelia Vandergast.