It’s a warm spring morning with a nice cold breeze going through the hair, it was perfectly timed that El-Tan released his third single “Run Away“. A UK-based artist with Zambian origins who started rapping at the age of 3, and started playing numerous instruments when he was 4 such as guitar, piano, drums, saxophone, and bass guitar. Quite a childhood El-Tan had, instead of learning the alphabets he took a different road to learn musical notes and symbols.
El-Tan started to produce at the age of 9 and he has been producing his music ever since; therefore composing “Run Away” therefore was inevitable.
The track begins with a 70’s mellow synth and keeps on throughout the whole track and the beat drops with a joyful clap rhythm drums.
The alignment of the music is what is making this track sound like a hit, the instrumental introduction and distribution along the track were pretty much in perfect shape. El-Tan added a few raw car horns in the intro background which had a couple of interpretations for me, whether they meant that the streets were crowded so there is no “running away” or the producer wanted to add the touch of street sounds to the vibe the running away more. Both cases were logical for me, but I guess it was too many car horns used in that matter.
Jumping off to the body with the soft clean vocal singing of Judah Ball who adds the chorus mixed with beautiful tunes of the saxophone.
Lyrically the track was moderate and a bit shallow compared to El-Tan‘s previous releases, and I believe It was to be more distinctive and ear surprising if the artist used better vocabulary or fewer mainstream lyrics.
All in all the track could go up the billboards with ease, it was made how hits are made sounding just as hit tracks. I sincerely don’t know where are the radio stations scouts to play their listener’s such tracks!
At a first glance, once I played this track, I said to myself “Whoa! Have I turned on the radio by mistake?” This is perfectly adequate to be played on electromagnetic waves, also it could be the soundtrack of your spring/summer vacation on a fine sand beach.
I really enjoyed the single and my rating is 9/10.
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