If the use of deftness and delicacy, restraint and understatement to create space in a song is an art form in its own right, and one which more people would do well to embrace, then Kiki Kramer is the “space queen.” We seem to live at a time when big is better, more seems always to be the answer, and where pop music seems to be about suckerpunching the listener into submission, but “prom king” is the antidote to such odd and obvious approaches.
Sitting at the cutting edge of modern pop sounds, it uses shuffling electro-beats, ebbs and flows of synth washes to create a backdrop and space, lots of space to build the musical canvas over which Kramer’s knowing, slightly jaded and emotional vocals dance.
This purposefully limited sound palette and sparse sonic structure mean that there is plenty of room for the light to get in, for atmospheres to pool and percolate between the beats, and so creating a sound that is more than the sum of its musical parts.
So what we have with “prom king” is a song built at the leading edge of modern pop, a place where the sound of now starts building the sound of the future, and a song that is both wonderfully commercial and still feels slightly underground, the sort of song that people will revel in for having found it for themselves rather than more obvious marketing drives.
Less is more, less has always been more…but you knew that, didn’t you?
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