Bridging the worlds of the singer-songwriter and the pop world, the acoustic troubadour and the dream-pop artist, “Maybe In Another World” is a song that covers a lot of ground, and does so without even breaking a sweat. But surely that is what the pop world needs: songs that are both accessible and clever, fun and infectious, yet still cleverly wrought. And if that is the case, then Alwyn Morrison is the man for the job.
Taken from his latest EP, Heartsplit, this is pop music carried into a more cinematic place by banks of orchestral washes and crashing percussion, slowly growing anthemics, mournful trumpets, chiming piano, and charming lyrics. Not the stuff of your run-of-the-mill pop piece.
The smart thing is, even as all this lush soundscaping grows and billows around the songs, at the heart of “Maybe In Another World” is always the sound of an understated, lilting, lovely acoustic pop song, a pop song that doesn’t forget its sonic purpose.
And that is the art of such things. Take a simple, solid idea —one robust enough to stand on its own two feet (I’m sure if you found Morrison busking this on a battered old acoustic, it would sound just as compelling) — and then dress it up in the scintillating and cinematic.
Do that, and you might have a song as good as this…. if you’re lucky.
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