HALIENE Finds Peace In Letting Go On Debut Album, "HEAVENLY"
“The human coronary heart is a vessel,” HALIENE whispers within the opening moments of her debut album, HEAVENLY, “able to holding deep oceans of mobile, celestial and religious reminiscences.”
It is a metaphor she is aware of higher than anybody.
For years, HALIENE has been a ubiquitous member of the melodic bass mafia, guiding tens of millions of listeners by pour-your-heart-out anthems alongside the likes of Seven Lions, ILLENIUM, Journey Membership and Kill The Noise. Her lyrics are achingly sincere and tenderly penned; her voice is hovering and robust.
When you take heed to EDM (and also you, pricey reader, clearly do), we are able to virtually assure you’ve got smiled, laughed or cried below the musical jurisdiction of HALIENE. It ought to come as no shock that her first full-length solo effort will do the identical.
Impressed by the ideas of human nature, fragility and impermanence, HEAVENLY is a 12-track work of poetry, weaving collectively parts of her trance and melodic bass roots with delicate acoustic meditations and beautiful instrumental solos.
Songs like “Attain Throughout the Sky” and “Metamorphosis” (with Markus Schulz) are hits within the making, pairing the perfect of HALIENE’s signature lyrical vulnerability (“Do you comply with me like satellites and pray that we collide? / I nonetheless look ahead to you”) with emotive drops.
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Then there are ballads like “Cannot Be Gone,” which in some way packs the punch of an enormous bass banger with a fragile association of weeping violins and fluttering piano keys. “Million Miles” takes us to a subject of flowers with an acoustic melody and a honeyed singsong tone, whereas “Butterfly” sentimentally ponders the processes of self-growth and private discovery.
“HEAVENLY is designed and written to guide the listener deeper inside themselves and to their true nature,” HALIENE stated in a press release. “I wished to discover topics lyrically that trigger us all to query and wrestle with our deepest nature, like vulnerability, discovering power in fragility, grief, and loss, forgiveness, transformation, unconditional love, instinct, and connections that appear to transcend time and planes of existence.”
Dynamic and cinematic, HEAVENLY is the kind of whole-brain artwork that materializes when pen and synth pad unite below the identical inventive thoughts. Its imaginative and prescient is clear-cut like a diamond, made all of the extra visceral by these uniquely interacting layers of lyricism and sound design. On this beautiful debut, HALIENE wears greater than her coronary heart on her sleeve. She bares her soul, and you will find a chunk of your self mirrored in it, too.
“Music takes us house,” HALIENE prophesies on the album’s titular outro. “On the finish of the story, we’ll discover the start once more / And when the final word of the symphony offers technique to silence, we discover our voice within the echoes / The reality that music left behind.”
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