Abie Lena had her breakout last year with her multi - platinum album ‘Love and Heartbreak’, more recently she released her very first DVD entitled ‘MTV World Stage: Abie Lena live in New York’ which also was certified multi – platinum. Speculations of her working on her second album started as soon as she ended up touring with Cassie Valentine last year, and those speculations lasted longer enough to the date of today, where officially she’s releasing the first single of this upcoming album.
The album already has a name ‘Seasons’ and we all can agree that the name was very appropriated, once the firsts ingle is called ‘Cold Spring’. Months ago Culture Uncut revealed that the album is really dark and sad, even more than her first album, lyrics are about love again, but this time Abie took a negative view of life to write the album. Confirmed track until now are the single ‘Cold Spring’, ‘Baby Hit the Road’ and the title track ‘Seasons’.
This new single will be available on digital markets and radio airplay this Sunday, Abie is schedule to perform the song on David Letterman next week and also she’s going to perform at the upcoming, Field Trip Festival managed by Julian co – owner of Abie’s record label.
A music video was recorded in London for the music, while Abie was finishing her album. The video is schedule to premiere on Music Box next May 31st.
Song DescriptionThe song starts with a simple piano melody, nothing too much elaborated, just to emphasize Abie’s amazing vocal performance on this song. The first strophe of the song we have Abie singing in a very soft style, but you have to understand that the whole song bears some kind of free style singing, Abie sings while feeling the song’s melodies. The sad and dark tone behind her singing is something to cling about too, she has never sounded so dark before.
In the pre-chorus of the track, Abie raises her voice a little bit, showing us the desperate feelings she’s hiding inside her heart, but is still subtle to what is about to come. In this moment another piano riff is added to the original melody of the song, this makes the song sound bigger than when it started, in general the song has this crescendo melody which is combined to Abie’s vocals, making it sound as a power ballad. The chorus is more elaborated vocally speaking, here Abie give us a tip of her powerful voice, but it’s still slow and soft.
The second strophe starts the additions of bass and drums and other strings, giving the song a neo-soul influence, also Abie’s vocal is more incorporated than it was before, she still sounds morbid but there’s some kind of fire growing inside her heart desperate to be released. The pre-chorus starts again Abie sings it with more confidence and louder than before till it culminates on the second chorus. And now we can start to see that amazing strong voice range Abie has, it is not fully loud or high like she did before, but it’s stronger than it was in the entire song and that desperate hopeless feeling is starting to come out of her heart.
The song than enters in a hook moment, where Abie sings in a crescendo style the last strophe of the song, she starts soft and calm till she delivers all her breath to an amazing high note, which she holds till the start of the last chorus.
In the last chorus Abie is fantastic, her vocals are strong, high and she’s singing the song like she was suffering for a very long time, but now she’s delivering all the pain and suffering she held inside her. Melodically the drums in this part of the song are more rock and roll style, but it is almost unperceived, because we clearly can say that this song was made to praise Abie’s voice. The song ends with Abie almost whispering the name of it.
The song takes reference from the spring season, which Abie compares the warming up sensation and her cold heart. She reveals throughout the song that she’s cold because someone that she loved a lot did something to hurt her and then left her alone, so she is saying that there’s a hate inside her that wants to get out somehow, by the end of the song she makes an analogy of killing the person who broke her, so she could get free of all this hate, but of course it’s an analogy, she’s trying to say that to get over situations we must kill the memories and the things that pushes back.
Technical ContentGenre: Pop, neo-soul
Length: 4:17
Produced by: Abie Lena and Rick Rubin
Written by: Abie Lena
Recorded: March 2012
Label: Studio 60
LyricsFlowers burn, but there’s no sun
The winter is gone, but the cold returned
Despite I'd tried, I can’t deny
You took my heart, you left a scar
And I’m trying to survive
While I feel the hazard
You’re so mean to reveal the truth behind yourself
The cold winds frozen my love
The exactly time you’re gone
And I’m still trying to see the tones
Of this cold spring
Well I thought, yes I fought
Against my will, to make this real
You don’t deserve, but I ignored
All the warnings signs, I made up a disguise
And I’m trying to survive
While I feel the hazard
You’re so mean to reveal the truth behind yourself
The cold winds frozen my love
The exactly time you’re gone
And I’m still trying to see the tones
Of this cold spring
There’s a fire burning inside of me
And it’s boiling my darkest wish
And I don’t want your sorry
I’ll pull the trigger just see you disappear
The cold winds frozen my love
The exactly time you’re gone
And I’m still trying to see the tones
Of this cold spring
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