A Personal Indie-Pop Feel From Ben Imber
A new release from Ben Imber brings out a cinematic and driving undertone with full-bodied vocals that feel like a gospel at times and takes those elements into this indie-pop atmosphere where you end up floating around through the waters of emotional and honest approaches as guitars follow vocal hooks, synths build, and everything just engulfs you.
"Better Days" is freeing, open, and lets you really touch on feelings you may have deep inside as the song flows around in the air surrounding you letting you just soak it in properly.
The release breeds a beautiful and simplistic combination of textures that really works wonders and takes on such an interesting character.
It packs this sort of emotional punch but you don't really know it until half way through the song. It begins to cause you to remember things or picture things. You start to feel from it all.
It's part of the beauty of this track. It creeps up on you in a way. It's sneaky even though you know that emotional build is coming. But it doesn't explode. Instead it flows right into it. The synths slip in and begin to appear, the guitars and beats kick in but they add so much more calmness somehow.
And this is a calming song at the same time as its growing intensity is there. They somehow compliment each other and balance the song perfectly.
This was quite a deep one for me and I think it's just how I related to it. Others may take it differently but it's got some soul to it. It's alive and breathes and you want to stay in this place it takes you.
A wonderfully built and arranged single, "Better Days" feels like a chapter in the artist's life and you can feel those emotional pulls and pushes it comes with.
Take a dive into this one. You won't regret it.