“In Every Quiet Moment” is a song that seems to exist in a very specific space, a place between not only genres, sounds, and style, but also a recognizable, if perhaps fleeting, point in the world.
Musically, it takes an R&B groove, one driven by an eloquent, funk-infused bass line and skittering beats, and pushes them in a more soul-rock direction. The result is the best of both worlds, deftness and drive, poise and power. And the experimentation doesn’t end there. As the song rounds the final corner, it plays with wonderful arabesque soundscapes and, finally, abrasive riffs.
How it all comes together without overloading the listener is a testement to Lawrence Timoni’s skills as an arranger, the fact that there is so much going on yet no one sound dominates, no one instrument gets in the way of another, and there is always enough space so that the sonic light gets in, illuminating, framing, and allowing everything to breathe.
Less tangibly, the lyrics set up a scene that all of us who have lived in cities will recognize. The song not only explores and reflects the noise of the urban sprawl, but it also muses on those lulls, those quiet spaces found between the hum and hustle of the city, as if it were, in itself, a beast, and we are languishing in the quiet intakes of breath before it cries out once more.
“In Every Quiet Moment” is all about atmosphere rather than impact, it is, like the idea of the city it relates too, a collection of sounds that taken together are more than the sum of their individual parts, a patch work of sound, a sonic medley that invites us to consider the calm before the storm, the shelter from the sonic rain, the lull in the passing of urban noise and what we might find there, and even, what we might be there.
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