Synth Single Review: Banished By Powerkord.

Powerkørd’s Banished begins with a rather buzzing, edgy synth that swells into the track with deep, dark synth notes moving thereunder, feeling tense and heavy. There’s a moving, descending synth pulse that turns into a deep oscillating pattern over a solid, driving drumbeat and a rather mysterious and ancient-sounding melody comes in carried on a medium-high synth with an almost trumpeting feeling thereto.

The deep bass throb pulses underneath the hard-hitting drums, while a rather melancholy melodic section moves in with chippy flashes of sound around it because it sails through, touched with warmth and sadness. The darker, heavier, and more tense melodic section moves in again and therefore the deep synth oscillations spin alongside the drums.

There’s a melancholy, lost feeling that comes into the music, introduced by a fast flash of a harp-like sound. The drums keep battering in and a bright and drifting arpeggio rapidly cascades through the track while varied and interesting percussion underpins it. The rapid dark arpeggiating notes move under a more minor, sad but darker segment, crying out into the track and again mixing warmth and shadow.

Banished is another single that paves the way for Powerkørd’s full album and it gives an honest indication of the interesting direction that it's the potential to require, so I’ll be waiting to listen to the entire album.