A Powerful New Single from Dustin Ransom with The Neighbors and Gabe Dixon
- R.A.G.
- 4 minutes ago
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A righteous new single from Dustin Ransom with The Neighbors & Gabe Dixon comes through with a powerful and incredibly soulful approach that feels almost gospel-like, as it's riddled with thick organs, addictive guitar work, and powerhouse vocals that reach out and grab you right from the start.
This is a very full-bodied single, and a huge aspect of why it flows the way it does and works so well is the drumming.
They use a live drummer to really push this track through the roof in terms of its energy, and that drummer absolutely gives off those thick, deep-pocketed grooves for you to get down with.
This is absolutely a heavy grooving single, and it serves as a hands in the air sing along kind of track, which you will likely be doing by the last chorus.
Along with the guitars and organs, you have some pianos that really lay in with those drums perfectly in sync, giving you even more to chew on, and the entire thing feels wholehearted.
This single sort of cries out. It's got a heavy-handed intensity coming from Dustin just delivering those impactful vocal refs that ooze a beautiful soulfulness to the point where you know this came from someplace real.
The track is called "Two Animals", and it's got a pretty deepening sentiment that deals with coupling with your power animal, getting in touch with your inner self, identity, and the side of you that you can thrive off of.
There's a lot of character behind the lyrics of this track, and it's all delivered with this closed-fisted classic rock kind of undertone that flows perfectly with the almost church-like gospel-style overtones.
The combination of how edgy it feels because everything is really performed with a striking approach, and the soul is a brilliant one.
When I say striking approach, what I mean is that the pianos are slammed at certain points, the drumming is cutting, delivering a bombastic kind of feel, the vocals are belting out, boisterous, and the guitar work is clean, not distorted, but it has an edginess to it and a blues touch that also flows right along with the aesthetic of the song itself.
You get this amazing synergy between everyone involved. It feels like something you would be blown away by during a live performance.
It's got an endless sort of energy, and everything is very well balanced. The instrumental performances are right up there with the vocals, and all of that energy is balled up into one huge soundscape that you can't get away from.
This is definitely a bit of a genre bender. There's definitely pop influence in there. There's that element of pop sensibility that lurks just beneath the surface, and this is mainly because it's got hooks. It's a catchy song, but it also feels authentic, as I mentioned before, as it came from someplace genuine.
All in all, this was very emotionally bound. You can feel that emotion pushing through, and that is very infectious to me.
I love it when you can listen to a song that you can feel in your bones, like this one. As I mentioned earlier, it's big. It's very sonically present, it is driving, it's got gusto, but again, it also has personality all over it.
The lyrics are brilliantly articulated in a way that lets each listener take them a little differently.
One person may interpret it differently from the next.
There's this really cool bridge section towards the end of the song before the last chorus that feels existential, talking about how time will move on and fold. It will collapse under us.
I feel like that's a statement saying we're all going to the same place.
No one can escape time.
So, there are a lot of different elements to this track that make it juicy. There are a lot of different ways to soak it in, and there are loads of outstandingly performed textures and tones to jam with.
Again, I think that energy is the thing that really pushes this through the roof. Everything is totally nailed, and I feel like the aesthetic of the song is exactly what it was meant to be.
But listen to it for yourself to see exactly what I mean.
Don't be afraid to turn this one up.