We previously featured Cries of Redemption for taking us on a genre-expansive and neuroplasticity-enhancing journey with the intentional and dimensional album, Patterns, so naturally, when we found out that Ed Silva was releasing The Return – Raw featuring Denisse Ferrara, as a single, we couldn’t wait to share a detailed spotlight on the track.
The Return – Raw opens with a glistening and cinematic guitar soundscape, performed with intricacy before expanding with ferocity and a stadium-ready energy. We are enthralled by the high octane vibes and instrumental mastery.
Argentine vocalist Denisse Ferrara shares a captivating vocal with the philosophical and metaphorical lyrics, “I know you stare, pretend I care, that dollar drops, like smoke, like air…”. Speaking on the message of The Return – Raw, the creators tell us, “The track explores a gritty, dual-perspective narrative: the contrasting agendas of an exotic dancer and her enamored client. Though they share the same physical space, the song highlights the vast emotional and psychological distance between them.”
We love how visual the track is and how the vocals seamlessly intertwine, like a conversation and lived manifestation of the story. We could imagine this in a scene from a film like Sin City, and the stadium-ready sound evokes images of pole dancers on a massive stage with strobing lights as we indeed become “lost in the night…”.
Fans of Evanescence would definitely be able to connect with this, and Ed cites David Gilmour, John Frusciante, Luis Ortiz, Adrian Smith, Billy Duffy, Carl Cox, Victor de la Pena and Danny Elfman as sonic influences, which we can feel manifest in his genre-expansive sound.
The stripped-back middle-eight with the lyrics, “I thought I saw her, but it’s just me, staring into want, paying for a fantasy, you paid to be ignored, and I let you…” is highly evocative before an epic reprise.
Needless to say, we are in awe, and have added The Return – Raw to our New Music Spotlight playlist, and our TIMELESS and TRIPPY playlists, whilst we continue to stream the wider discography of Cries of Redemption, including the entirety of Patterns!