‘Seriously-Revived Version’ by Katchafire is warm reggae tune that captures the spirit of the song while celebrating it. The rhythm moves through an easy groove that flows and falters at points,. This creating this unsettling effect that threatens to permeate the track.
The song’s lyrics are warm, kind, imploring and empathetic, asking for another chance while asking the person they address to let their guard down. There’s also this sense that the song is asking its listener to let-loose and allow themselves to get lost in the groove.
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‘Seriously-Revived Version’: A Celebration
‘Seriously-Revived Version’ is a celebration of a song that is testament of a long career in music. Its groove is well-practiced, sounding as though its meant to be played in front of an audience that’s just pulsing withe energy. Its sound takes on a chance, an energetic leap that feels like an embrace, warm and connected.
The song speaks to someone who’s tempted by this warmth, asking them to give it a chance. Imploring them to join in on this celebration of sound, but can also tell that they’re hesitant. “…Seriously, give me another one…”. There’s this sense of empathy to the lines too, that feel like hands moving to great our resistant traveller in an embrace. “…I know what you’ve been through…”.
‘Seriously-Revived Version’ gives in to the point that it almost feels uneasy. It does this with rhythms playing outside of that familiar, reggae groove to create am interestingly unsettling effect that feels like it compliments the rest of the song.
Its almost as though there’s no way to tell if giving into the rhythm is the right thing to do.
“…Breaking the rhythm just won’t stop you moving…”.
‘Seriously-Revived Version’ by Katchafire is a celebration of a long career with an interesting, complimentary and even unsettling groove. The song tries to pull listeners into its experience by layering groovy, warm reggae with unsettling synth variations.
It makes for a warm and compelling listen.
The Artist
Katchafire are an all Maori reggae band from Kirikiriroa in Aotearoa (Hamilton in New Zealand. Their music has a universal vibe, that has been crafted from the foundations of classic reggae, melding that with RnB, funk rub, modern dance-hall and pop.
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