A Debut Single from Hollow Star
A new release from Hollow Star delivers a bright pop-rock and post-punk tonality with bopping rhythms, vivacious guitars, and smooth vocals, all coming together to create something that is incredibly danceable, but also strangely addictive.
"Seconds" brings together a slew of influences and has a particular way of grabbing your attention with those guitars. The guitar work on this track is particularly vibrant, and it's really the key element that draws your attention towards the song.
This single showcases the artist's ability to write a track that sticks with you. This is a bopping track that you will end up grooving along with super quickly.
The energy balances throughout this track are incredible. The vocals have a certain smoothness to them. They are totally and textually silky, in a sense.
He double-tracks his vocals, giving them a little extra thickness, and this really helps deliver added layers to the song and pulls your attention towards some of the lyrics as well.
The vocal melodies are really what bring this song together. All of the elements of the track fall together like puzzle pieces, and it's really bright and colorful, not only in its musical sense, but in its energy as well.
Again, that balance of energies is perfect between the vocals and the guitars. The percussion feels like it's live and gives more drive to the song, but is never really over the top.
Sometimes there are tracks where the drums are the driving point of the song and help push it forward, but in this case, it's really the guitars that do that.
This feels sort of polished. It has a great shine to it and still sticks to this indie and pop rock approach, but gives those hints and elements of post-punk influence as well.
I dig a track that brings all those things together and still has some great hooks and danceable rhythms.
Throughout a lot of the song, the guitars are doing chords with great timing and a sort of perfected stop-go approach. There's one guitar that's doing a steady flow while the guitar on top hits certain chords that follow along in different places.
Then there are parts of the song where the guitars sort of separate out and do their own thing. One is just strumming open cords and letting them ring out while the other one is doing arpeggiated versions of that, and when you hear them together, the layers are outstanding.
He also takes time to separate speakers so that you hear one guitar on the left and another on the right. This is great to listen to with headphones on because you can really pick up on that element.
There is everything from classic rock to pop rock, with dance, and little hints of disco throughout this song Alone. It really showcases how the artist has a passion and love for a multitude of genres and can incorporate a lot of that into a single.
The bass guitar is outstanding throughout this entire thing as well, delivering a line that doesn't sit still. The bass guitar line sort of walks and adds a little funky undertone to everything.
The bass guitar tone is really key here as well. It's got a fat underbelly, but you can hear all the notes being hit even under the guitars and everything.
The whole track sounds like it was really fun to put together, and this is something you can tell was a good time for Micah Lopez, the artist behind it all.
On Spotify, this seems to be a debut single, and as far as we can tell, this could be leading towards a debut EP set for very early next year.
I certainly hope there's going to be more songs to drive with like this one.
Come check this single out so you can see exactly what I mean.
