The New Citizen Kane has something achingly beautiful about his new song that makes one instantly think of those sun drenched highways where memories and music crash into each other. San Diego is the ideal way to start a new and, it would seem, an extraordinary new phase in the career of the artist, after the success of the critically-acclaimed The Tales Of Morpheus.
The thing that impresses me the most is how naturally this song combines the feeling of intimacy and cinematic scale. The singing is so real that you can taste the burden of all the heartbreaks and the tug of all the nostalgic moments. It has a vulnerability that is very personal but also very universal, we all have had that place where we have experienced our greatest pleasures and our deepest scars.
The music is like a light summer breeze, the atmosphere is dreamy and down-to-earth at the same time. The synths move between subtle touches and lively explosions and this reflects the intricate emotions in the story so well. It is music where you are invited to sing along and at the same time it breaks your heart.
After ‘San Diego,’ ‘Ratbag Joy’ showcases another aspect of The New Citizen Kane in terms of storytelling ability. Where Ratbag Joy focuses on patterns of reckless behavior and short term pleasure, San Diego,’ explores the memories of love and loss even more profoundly. The difference between these two songs is a clue to the emotional depths that the new album, Psychedelika, will cover.
The music video that accompanies the song does not overpower the music but adds to the cinematic quality of the song, which is a testimony to the knowledge of the artist in visual storytelling. It is grown-up songwriting that recognizes how some locations get inseparably connected with our emotional topography. The combination of poetic lyricism and evocative melodies in the song San Diego is a masterpiece that proves that The New Citizen Kane is developing into an appealing voice in the music scene today.
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