“A Cinematic Rock Odyssey Raising the Bar for Debuts” – And with the second single off his much hyped debut album DHRICMV, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Matt Friedlander has come up with an album that is a masterpiece of post-modern pop/rock with this single “This City Shines So Bright” by -Minus32Heartbeat.
Sublime in its conception and execution, Friedlander takes three and a half minutes of perfectly produced and performed music and vocal arrangement to take the audience on an unforgettable journey. Each and every layer of interwoven melodies, rhythms, harmonies and soundscapes are filled with Friedlander’s great passion and his creativity. After such a powerful start, the second song, “This City Shines So Bright,” takes the DHRICMV album to a whole new level of film-like intensity and grandeur. Friedlander combines catchy guitar lines, choruses that could fill a stadium, and his characteristic rich synthesizer layers into epic sound paintings that seem to have been created for epic movie scores.
He takes inspiration from operas of classic rock and infuses them with his own sound. It is quite evident that Friedlander has left his heart, soul and all the talents that he possesses in creating what can be best described as an album’s worth of music in one single track. Each minute of playing time is as polished as it gets and bristling with feeling. The visionary mastermind behind the solo project has already laid down the gauntlet for what will likely be one of the most highly anticipated releases of 2024, if not the entire genre of modern concept albums. Combined with DHRICMV, “This City Shines So Bright” is nothing less than a defining magnum opus from an artist who is just starting to tap into the seemingly endless well of imagination.Audiences are in for a wild time.
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