Emerald Sun is playing you an early New Year gift with "Callin' Out," his latest release, a track that took the form not in revelry but in a moment of utter loneliness. Written on New Year's Day in Track Maker Studios, aka his spare room in Palmerston, NT, the track portrays his loneliness while he and his family went through a COVID-inflicted holiday period.
"Callin' Out" is the daring beat choice. For an artist entrenched in familiar flows, this beat was a foreign trap style that Emerald Sun had never tried. And yet, this leap into the unknown pays off. The chill house vibe serves as an understated undercurrent, offsetting the reflective nature of his lyrics and rap cadence with rhythmic ease. It's intimate and club-paced, that rare balance of vibe and openness.
Instead of wallowing in despair, Emerald Sun turns his longing for that connection into a unique adventure that fuses rap, pop rap, and an unexpected detour into a chill house. This emotional dispatch through the ether is a cry to those we hold dear when we're being kept apart. Emerald Sun is full of candid, unvarnished singing, which is good. His voice glides smoothly over the beat as though he were thinking out loud in rhythm. And you can hear the faint ache in his voice and the determination, a musical artist doing his best to try to make sense of the moment.
"Callin' Out" is a mood of wax. It takes a universally recognizable ache of longing for a loved one and transforms it into something hopeful and human. This is a lovely new chapter for those who have loved the book for years. It is the ideal gateway for new listeners into the Emerald Sun's honest, experimental, heartfelt universe. On "Callin' Out," Emerald Sun makes the case that, even in isolation, the connection is still possible, one beat after the next.
Discover Emerald Sun on Instagram