ILLENIUM’s post-trilogy chapter instates on matured fourth album, ‘Fallen Embers’ – Dancing Astronaut
by: Ross Goldenberg
Jul 16, 2021
Out with Ashes, Awake, and Ascend, and in with Fallen Embers. The day has lastly come for ILLENIUM to transcend the triad—which was despatched off with a history-making farewell efficiency inside Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium—and pen a brand new narrative of the phoenix.
Earlier than any concrete proof surrounding a potential Ascend successor was ever publicly recognized, we figured that the latest 12Tone Music signee had an planetary broadcast ready within the pipeline, and as such, thought of it a protected wager to put ILLENIUM’s title in Dancing Astronaut‘s most-anticipated tasks of the approaching 12 months forward. That panned out.
Preceded by six singles that every respectively introduced a lucid peer into his subsequent musical section’s core directive, “Nightlight” with Annika Wells, “Paper Skinny” with Tom DeLonge, “Hearts On Fireplace” with Dabin and Lights, “First Time” with Iann Dior, “Sideways” with Nurko and Valerie Broussard—one in every of Dancing Astronaut‘s favourite IDs heading into 2021—and in the end, “Heavenly Aspect” with Matt Maeson, ILLENIUM’s Fallen Embers amassed an illimitable diploma of pleasure throughout the earlier 11 months, and rightly so.
It was overt from the get-go that Fallen Embers was going to be ILLENIUM’s most mature and superior physique of labor of his 4, taking the total plunge into the rock-meets-pop-meets-melodic bass locution that’s more and more submersed his music since Ascend. All eight non-singles evenly match—if not outpace, at instances—the originals that helped navigate the way in which to the LP’s unveiling, with every of three IDs from ILLENIUM’s mini-preview part of TRILOGY dwelling as much as how gallant they have been as they drowned the Allegiant Stadium airwaves, together with “Blame Myself” with Tori Kelly, “Courageous Soul” with “Emma Grace,” and a fittingly branded reassembly with each Mentioned The Sky and Rock Mafia, “Crazy Times.” On paper, nevertheless, the 2 most incontestably desired album cuts have been the star-studded numbers that ILLENIUM welcomed reside on the Ubbi Dubbi mainstage: “In My Mind” with HALIENE and Excision—which renewed his collaborative relation with each artists—and “Lay It Down” with SLANDER and Krewella. Each reside as much as every ounce of the sooner, in-person presentation.
Spanning 14 inclusions—with additional singer-songwriter raise from Sasha Sloan, Nothing,Nowhere, and Natalie Taylor that, in fact, can’t go unmentioned—Fallen Embers is an estimable, emotion-soaked doorway into ILLENIUM’s fourth period, a 360-degree scope of what he conceptualized for his album’s rebirth-inspired headline and his first full-length step exterior of the “A” trilogy.
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