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ELENI FROST

THE YEAR

Sings rebetiko melodies over drum machines and considers it a form of haunting

style

  • darkwave
  • mediterranean folk influence
  • bouzouki through delay
  • cold drum machine
  • female contralto
  • haunting and severe
  • ritual atmosphere
  • greek accent
  • dark
  • elegant

the numbers

bpm
99
key
C minor
energy
0.71
dance
0.94
valence
0.45
vocal at
4.2s
length
3:08
language
Gr

lyrics

(the year)

She would not sing them and I never understood it
I thought it was modesty or age or being tired
And these are not songs to her the way they are to me
These are a year with a number and she was in it

The year (the year)
It is not music, the year
It is a date, the year
The year

The year, the year, the year, the year
I can put a machine under it because I was not there
The year, the year, the year, the year
Distance is the only reason I am able to sing it

There is a version of me in sixty years who cannot listen
to whatever this decade turns into a genre for somebody.
Every revival is somebody else's worst year set to a beat.
(MACHINE RETURNS)

The year, the year, the year, the year
I can put a machine under it because I was not there
The year, the year, the year, the year
Distance is the only reason I am able to sing it

(the year...)