Embracing darkwave, post-punk, and fringe indie, Solum has built quite a career so far. His listenership is ever-growing, and while that’s a vanity metric, it’s also a crucial sign regarding the quality and relevance of the project’s artistic output. Take ‘Circles’, for instance. Solum’s latest effort, the record jumps with both feet into coldwave territories, with a punchy bassline and spacious guitars on top of a fast-paced, roaring drum groove. It’s a formula we know too well, one that’s also quite widespread at the moment.
Hear us out: the way Solum implements such a formula is interesting and fresh, and overall, we are certainly not tired of it. On the contrary, the British creative makes it appealing and evocative, delivering a slice of aural goodness that sounds incredibly good and convincing. Solum’s vocals are up to scratch, too, with an alternative, sombre, fuzzy tone that instantly captures the listeners’ attention. Melodies are catchy and friendly, packed with melancholia but never too gloomy.
Delving deeper into the song’s lyricism, Solum explains: “‘Circles’ is something that always happens between people within a toxic relationship. It’s that real feeling of being tired of this toxic relationship of going back and forth; they break your heart, but still try to come crawling back. Again and again, they always make you jump through hoops and for what?”
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