London-based creative AUNCE (pronounced Aunts/Arnts) makes it a hat-trick with her third feature here on Unrecorded with her recent single ‘Come Back’. Following on from tracks ‘Zoo Friend’ and ‘Silver Sun’, this artist pushes her sonic boundaries even further with this intimate and profoundly human indietronica meets alt-pop soundscape. At the core of those shimmering, almost fragile digital textures and spacious construction, there’s a raw emotionality that itself shapes the track.
It’s noticeably a quieter and more vulnerable turn that reflects how a residency at the University of West London’s Townshend Studio tapped into something held deeply within AUNCE‘s soul. ‘Come Back’ reflects upon grief, where one retraces memories to try to bring the lost loved on back into the present. As such, those abstract textures mirror how disjointed that process can be and yet it’s an experience that ties so many of us together.
The track’s backbone is the ARP 2500 synthesizer, whose warm, wavering modulations further emphasise the intensely human quality of sorrow, anger, nostalgia and (eventually) acceptance. ‘Come Back’ is very much a living, breathing piece led by AUNCE‘s distinctive wordless vocalisations. Acting as an interpretive instrument, her voice is like an elemental shapeshifter moving through breaths, tones, and emotions. That refusal to be tied down by one language is a powerful statement on the universality of grief.
‘Come Back’ moves in an ebb and flow motion, like the tide lapping up onto the beach, with swelling waves, before inevitably receding back out into the ocean’s expanse. It’s a truly soothing listen that relies on the senses to find understanding and community.
You can also find ‘Come Back’ in our Shades of Pop and Electro Feels playlists.
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