Kailan McGee Releases An Engulfing New Single
A new single from Kailan McGee brings out such a smooth, vast, and cinematic undertone with a track that breeds elements of folk with folklore, and I love how she's able to take the sensation of something fantastical and bring it into a song like this one. It's a very unique approach, but it works amazingly because of how descriptive she can be with her lyrics.
I think that's a really key element as to why the song has the kind of flow that it does.
Her vocal performance here is gorgeous, and she really gives it her all, forming with a certain kind of passion as she tells the story of "The Legend of the Wild Moon", which is a tale that slightly haunts and has plenty of darkness in its underbelly, especially the way she articulates those lyrics. Again, she's very descriptive and detailed with letting you paint a picture in your head as the song unfolds.
This is by far one of my favorite aspects of the entire song. It's got that sort of unknown element to it. The mysteries of the Black Forest on the night of the Wild Moon.
I love stuff like this. You can really picture all of this while she's singing it and the song breeds elements of old and new school approaches with acoustic and clean guitar that are accompanied by these flowing vocals.
The whole thing with this track is that fantastical element is portrayed well lyrically, but it's also performed well and comes through in the soundscape of the track perfectly.
It feels like there are also these kinds of synth pads in the far background, adding a lot of depth and more ambiance to the song.
You can tell there was a lot of attention to detail paid in terms of the tonalities of the instrument. That guitar has a great low end, but it's also thinned out so you hear the acoustic element coming through, and the undertone of it all has that vastness. All of this, accompanied by the way the dreamy and floaty vocals are something that has a way of swimming around in the air that surrounds you.
This is absolutely a track I would highly suggest listening to with headphones on so you can really soak everything in.
It's got that rustic sort of aesthetic to it in a sense.
A lot of the melodies are very memorable. The vocals perform a lot of hooks, but you don't really notice their hooks until the song goes through them a few times. They just sound like gorgeous melodies, and the whole thing has a way of wrapping itself around you and keeping you right where it wants to.
One of the things I noticed is that the mix of the track is really spot on as well. I don't always touch on the post-production of a song, but here, I feel like it's really important because whoever mixed this song really understood the mission.
This is a song that has a haunt, it's spacious but a little bit dark and edgy, it tells a tale of folklore, and that element needs to be there the entire time musically as well.
One of the reasons I love this mix is because the vocals are distanced but up close at the same time, somehow. They have this great reverb effect on them while the guitars feel closer, so this pushes the vocals farther away in the sense of feeling distant, and that makes the song deeper and even more fantastical, as I mentioned earlier.
This was so much fun, and it's been a long time since I've heard a song that focuses on this kind of approach and pulls it off without a hitch.
So, as I said before, listening to the song with headphones on lets you take in not just the lyrics but all the depth and layers of the song that are actually happening.
It's a song that has an occult feel. It's witchy. I love this.
She really nails the aesthetic perfectly and portrays the essence of the witches' promise, the dark side of it all, and what the wild moon will bring.
I'm not giving it all away. You have to listen to the song to really take it in. Listening to this is like reading a chapter in a good book.
It's an escape. It pulls you away from wherever you are and whatever you're doing and puts you in this whole other world for a moment in time, and that, to me, is a gift.
This is the kind of feeling I want to have when I listen to certain kinds of songs.
I absolutely love this, and you should definitely listen to this right now.
By the way, there are also several other releases she's had in the past year or two, and the best way to listen to those is on her Bandcamp Page. There's a lot to go through, and you can sort of hear her evolution as a songwriter if you do so. I found this to be quite fun.
