Next up on our listening rotation this week is ‘Blue Atoms’, the starry-eyed indie number from Manchester-based musician Warahenege. Taking our cue from the song’s title, the connection between music and science is a fairly simple one to make, after all when you break music down to its composite parts, it’s just as much a formula as it is an art. Perhaps the same can be said of love, with its emotion-inducing cocktail of chemicals that takes over our brain, changing our perspective on the world.
The reason we’re making these links between music, science and love is that the musician’s wistful new track ‘Blue Atoms’ was inspired by a seemingly magical transition from solitude to a deep bond, one that helps to overcome feelings of melancholia.
Here, Warahenege eloquently lays out the message behind this captivating single:
“Blue Atoms is about hopelessness in the face of loneliness and about someone serendipitously turning up in your life that drives those feelings away. The slow groove and lush instrumentation warmly embrace lyrics that shift from ennui and self-directed anger to hope in a genuine human connection.”
The artist distills this significant life moment into a dazzling soundtrack that incorporates elements of dream-pop, shoegaze and indie-rock. At first, the narrative comes into view slowly with a somnambulist drum beat, disparate synths and Warahenege‘s pensive vocal drawl, through which he initially reflects on “another summer sitting wasting time…” However, the track gradually builds out this lo-fi soundscape before bursting into an unexpected rush of upbeat melodies and kinetic percussion at around the 1:13 minute mark. It’s within that chorus that we hear the songwriter’s newfound hope and we can’t help but be uplifted by it.
‘Blue Atoms’ strikes us as such a sincere and intimate portrayal of the human experience. That vulnerability is in part thanks to the artist writing and recording this alone in his Manchester bedroom, before then sending it out to be mixed and mastered by Ben Etter in Atlanta, GA.
This might be our first time listening to Warahenege, but we’re sincerely interested to see (and hear) what else this musician will bring to the table this year.
You can also listen to ‘Blue Atoms’ in our Indie Rockers playlist.
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