The 5 Best Songs on Odesza’s ‘A Moment Apart’, Ranked
Odesza, the electronic duo from Seattle, is out with A Moment Apart, one of the year’s most anticipated albums in the EDM genre. After multiple listen-throughs since the entire 16 songs dropped Friday, here are the top five tracks, ranked:
(Click on the titles to listen while you read.)
5. Just A Memory (featuring Regina Spektor)
Regina Spektor carries this airy, wistful ballad about lost love, the regret of a relationship beyond repair and the pain of letting go. “Baby come back and fight,” is the heart of the song and Odesza’s minimalist restraint offers just the right amount of harmony to propel it along without getting in Spektor’s way.
This song earns its title by capturing the fast-paced, bustling life in the heart of a city. But in true Odesza fashion, the frenzied journey is interrupted with moments of contemplation and reflection before heading back into the hustle. There are no real vocals in this city, but computerized pops representing both genders are speaking to you.
3. Divide (featuring Kelsey Bulkin)
The opening beats might lead you to believe you’ve stumbled into a Mariah Carey throwback, but Kelsey Bulkin is just trying to snatch your attention to explain the often dueling, conflicting and maddening perceptions about the state of a blossoming relationship. “Tell me what can I do. I can’t relax. If I can’t be still. Moving too fast. Am I moving too fast?” Bulkin confides, offering up a gauzy R&B vibe over a shimmering electronic canvass. Bonus points if you notice the staggered synth stabs as it winds to a close.
2. Corners Of The Earth (featuring RY X)
For the diehard Odeszians out there, this is the goosebump track. It’s a galactic-sized event producing a beautiful feeling of melancholy even as RY X is sweetly telling us how far we’ll go to show love. “We fall to the edges of the earth. We burn tonight as one.” The message is if you’ll allow yourself to search for love, you may just discover it in places you wouldn’t expect. Cue the Kleenex.
Deliberate deep breaths that open the album’s title track immediately set the grandiose ambitions for the entire set. With dark piano keys juxtaposed over racing cinematic strikes, it feels like you’ve been catapulted into the culminating scene of a major motion picture. How will it end? Not to worry. An orchestral finish provides the effervescent sensation of a positive conclusion.
