Album Review/ Art Rock : Canary Complex’s ‘Whisper of Spring’

Canary Complex is a solo visual kei project, made to enrich all your senses as your listening. The artist crafts a world that is above and beyond any genre, any fixed style. It opens up and forms in layers, gains dimensions, and becomes a whole fantasy of music. Including baroque instrumentation, impressionistic colors, evolving moods, characters, emotions and performative vocals, it is reminiscent of Panic! At the Disco. The latest release is ‘Whisper of Spring’, a dramatic series of music that involves soft neo-classicals, luminous balloons of music, all of it inflating with lifelike sensibilities. It is rife, blooming with the exposure of spring, its whimsy, its grandeur, and its life. With animated scenes, theatrical elements, and incredible melodrama, it is quite the collection of music. A world of its own. 

‘Corsets Fall’ introduces the album. With rock riffs whirlpooling with mounting beats, plush synths and otherworldly vocal imagery, the song feels retro, present, and futuristic. ‘The Face of God’ also stretches out with a mellow horizon, gaining meaningful momentum progressively. The dynamism of sliding grooves and mushrooming basslines lift into a trance mass that becomes the chorus. And all of it immerses and drenches every part of your mind. 

Like this, the artist creates grand moments and spectacular scenes of music with conventional genre elements. In ‘Seance’, we see a pulling interpretation of contemporary pop. The grand pulse of the instrumentals have their own life, their own pulse and manifestation. They open into jungles of orchestral music, are full and rich and neo cultured. Tracks like ‘Hyacinthine’, ‘Déshabillez - Moi’,‘Papillon ~ Snow Angel’ have dreamy spheres and are crafted with heartfelt romance. 

‘Pierrot (Deep Sky)’ is an atmospheric track that plays with light and shadows to create an ethereal illusion of sound. Across the album, it’s as if the artist is setting the scene, the stage and then ushering in the characters, their stories, lives, interactions and emotions. Like watching a play, where each of the track is an act, a scene, a part of the story. Listen Now! 

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The album is available for streaming on popular sites like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music! 

You can listen to ‘A Whisper of Spring’ by Canary Complex here -