It is deeply touching to see an artist create out of pure authenticity, such as when one has been carrying a heavy load, but you can see the moment they put the heavy burden down and you can see the relief on their face. The song of I Don’t Need to Hide Anymore by ESTRADA Music Project is a perfect illustration of such a song: this is music that materialized as a result of a lived experience, such as water finally piercing a dam, true and unstoppable.
The Glasgow-based singer, who dedicates his time to hospital beds and home sessions in a recording studio, has created a song that resonates with anyone who has ever donned a mask so much that he is unable to recognize his face underneath it. The song is blinking with sad synths that somehow succeed in being both depressing and uplifting, like observing a storm cloud clearing to reveal the surprising sunshine, which is a kind of sonic paradox and reminds being between who you are and who you are turning out to be.
What stands out to me the most is the manner in which ESTRADA incorporates his dual identity into something that is truly empowering in fact two rivers becoming stronger when they join together than when either is taken alone. The electronic pop sound gives you an immersion atmosphere in which cathartic self-expression is at the centre-stage of musicality the musical version of say words that you have been practicing in silence all your life.
There is emotional honesty in his tone that is akin to reading a diary entry that someone wrote about themselves but it is being read by another person and alternating between low-whispers and dramatic shouts of someone who has always spoken in a low-pitched voice and is only now discovering how to use it fully.
The structure holds the message of the song like scaffolding holding a new structure, which lets the words of independence and self-acceptance flow as the song remains engaging. It has gathered sound in Recording sessions through Valencia and Porto that: Have a richness of texture that is as much like a tapestry made of the various threads of experience. It is synth-pop that is darkwave with substance-evidence that real passion breaks down walls not builds them higher. I Don’t Need to Hide Anymore is a call to complexity, as having the light shine through the fog of years of warped mirrors.
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