Millie Gaum – Queen City Sounds and Art

From Apes to Angels, photo courtesy the artists

Millie Gaum and Andrew Brassleay bridge the worlds of IDM, modern synthwave and dream pop with their project From Apes to Angels and the new album Let the Light In. The single “Grain Barge” begins with what feel like the thoughts of immortals floating in a stream of the ambient energy that permeates the universe moving in slow arcing waves of distorted quanta. When the wind passes we find ourselves bathed in ethereal vocals that sing of someone becoming divine. And it is then that the percussion comes in with an urgent piano line that what began as the expression of universal beings congeals into a pop song of luminous but those grounded in energies and experiences that have a human immediacy. It’s an interesting reverse of the progression of many pop songs that begin with the earthbound human experience and aim for more elevated realms of expression. But not once does the song lack for an emotionally cleansing quality that leaves you uplifted at the end. Listen to “Grain Barge” on Soundcloud and connect with From Apes to Angels at the links provided.