Is anyone else still a little surprised that Seven Lions makes this exact sound work as consistently as he does? “A Crown of Seven Moons” is peak Jeff Montalvo, that fusion of trance-sized melody and dubstep weight that basically nobody else pulls off convincingly. The intro is all gauzy, celestial atmosphere before the first drop shows up and reminds you there is a serious sound designer under the fairy dust who knows his way around a bass patch. What keeps it from sliding into fantasy-soundtrack territory is the drop’s actual grit, a growl where a lesser producer would just twinkle politely and move on. The melodic side is huge and yearning, the sort of thing that scores the climax of a film you would be a little embarrassed to admit made you tear up. Then the low end arrives and beats the sentiment clean out of you. The formula is familiar by now, sure, but he still executes it better than the whole swarm of producers who have tried to lift it wholesale. The drop’s second half switches to a chopped, detuned lead that is the best fifteen seconds on here, and it is the part I keep scrubbing back to.
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Seven Lions - A Crown of Seven Moons
1 minute on this. That's longer than the bridge of any Coldplay song deserves.
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