‘Hearts Get Started’ by singer-songwriter Ebony Buckle is an emotional charged album, with ten songs that flow through genres. These songs seem to tell emotionally charged stories about love, memory and everything in between.
Some songs repeat line, flowing together to create a mood. While others create a mood with layered soundscapes, both effectively charging the album’s overall soundscape with emotions that could choke you up.
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‘Hearts Get Started’: ‘Fall Behind’-‘The Whiskey Song’
‘Fall Behind’, though seemingly unsettling with its chanting and dark mood, is ultimately a song that redoubles commitment. It seems to build the soundscape’s world, while its lines hold a subtle sense of hidden comfort between them. “…Fall behind, you can fall behind and I’ll be there…”.
‘Hearts Get Started’, the album’s namesake, is a hopeful, optimistic track that starts off as a piano ballad. This before it adds a bright layer of percussion and strings, amplifying its optimistic, almost “I Want Song” tone.
“…I can see a whole year now, a whole year…
I can see the colours now, I can see them all…
…It’s spring time in my mind and everything’s getting overgrown…”.
This leads into ‘Golden Sand’, a nostalgic, piano-led piece that captures memory through objects and motion. Almost as though its stream of consciousness, the singer describes pictures in her book, from the time she was letting, following the thread of those memories to experiences she wouldn’t want to forget. Its stunning, fleeting and emotionally impactful.
‘I Think I Saved My Own Life’ returns to something dark, with a deep bass and subtle yet tremulous strings. Its a song that moves from something dark to a mood that is a bit bright, expanding before it comes back down again. Its lyrics seem to describe vague yet identifiable emotions that connect.
‘The Whiskey Song’ sounds like a lively country, bar track that describes someone’s absence in three parts. Its playful with a hint of something less so, counting someone downing shots of whiskey in a way that feels a bit tragic by song’s end.
“…One whiskey, two whiskey, three whiskey, four…’.
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‘Hearts Get Started’: ‘Soph My Dear’- ‘Jupiter Rising’
‘Soph My Dear’ is a piano ballad that feels like a definite highlight on the album. It’s a pretty melody backed by strings with touching lyrics that feel personal and private yet heartwarming just the same.
‘The Monster’ returns to something dark and tremulous and haunting. The song moves from realisation to a sense of acceptance, allowing for some sense of dark catharsis by the song’s end.
“…I made you this and here you are, in all your cruelest glory…”.
The song ends on a note of integration almost, that carries through most the rest of the album.
‘Russian Dolls’ and ‘Run’ both feel off-kelter and thrown, almost as though they’re moving on slanted ground. ‘Russian Dolls’ is layered with its reto-circus-like playfulness and swing, twisting and turning with every loop through the melody.
‘Run’ has a percussion that trickles, with lines woven with unshakable paranoia, that like the last song feels playful and a bit satirical almost.
“…Is it MI6 or 5…?…the CIA or the FBI…?…
…Or some poor man with his headphones in looking at me…?”.
The last song on the album, ‘Jupiter Rising’ begins as a piano-ballad, closing out the album. Its pianos move and build, with synths and layered vocals joining in to create a mood that’s slowly beginning to move before settling into a quiet guitar and piano melody. Its mood is empowering, yet quiet in its conclusiveness, with every emotion exploding into the track at its climax.
“…We are so small and my heart grows wild, we are what we need to be…
…Help me cross the road, I cannot cross (it) alone…”.
The song does all of this before fading out, leaving its listener in its mood long after the track has ended.
‘Hearts Get Started’ by Ebony Buckle is a moving collection of songs that keeps its listener ensnared from beginning to end.
The Artist
Ebony Buckle is an Australian singer-songwriter based in London. She uses her music to tell captivating stories that hold up a mirror to herself and the world. Her song reflects inherent humanity, with the hope that people can connect, grow, learn and evolve without fear. This while being able to see the magnificent beauty of the universe.
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