Lo Artiz’s arrangements on the “11:11” single uses a subtle, sparkly tonal backdrop that sound like winking starlight as the setting for the song’s deeply contemplative tenor. The song has layers of vocal melody like something one might expect in a electro soul song akin to something you’d hear on an Erykah Badu record. The song is about sorting out the ways a person struggles with the anxieties that haunt them without allowing those disruptive waves of mood to circumscribe one’s entire life. But in those moments when your personal demons hit so deep into your mind that you have a difficult time shaking off their grip sometimes you really need some things to hold on to to pull yourself out of those dark corners of the soul and sometimes it’s the ability to dream of a different time and place for yourself, sometimes little activities and joys that serve as the scaffolding of your psyche so that even if you fall far into personal darkness you can at least have something that stimulates your brain beyond its self-immolating fixations. The recursive pulse of the rhythm with ethereal tones that unravel anxious reactions are like a salve themselves especially with Lo Artiz’s soulful and commanding vocals that serve less as a demand for better for yourself than a hypnotic reminder that the worst moments in your head are not the entirety of who you are and that even without insipid positivity and bravado that you can in face find a way to go on even when you don’t think you can. Listen to “11:11” on Spotify and follow Lo Artiz at the links provided.
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