Abdullah Siddiqui drops his surprise album “dead Beats poets” and takes you through various emotional phases of youth

Abdullah Siddiqui got the spotlight for his EDM music when his song, Resistance touched 3.5 million views on YouTube. He also ended up on Nescafe Basement, where a different rendition of the song was done. At the very young age of 18 he got nominated twice for the Lux Style Awards as the Best Emerging Talent in music.

Sometime around June last year, Siddiqui released his album Heterotopia. In a time when artists focus more on singles, the young musicians is out with another full length studio album that went live today.

Titled, dead Beat poets, the album is a quarantine production and a harsh exercise in vulnerability. In his own words, he loves this album more than any of his other works; and goes to show that he has really put his guard down this time around.

Unlike the general assumption people have about EDM music, the lyrics of his songs are quite wordy and he is quite aware of this. According to his Instagram note announcing the album he shares that his songs sometimes read like academic papers.

“But somewhere along the line, I realized that this wasn’t abstraction, it was obscurantism. I was hiding my life and my feelings behind my language. I also realized that somewhere in the dense echo chamber of recursive introspection, I had forgotten to just be 20 years old.”

This understanding he highlights is the reason behind the creation of these 11 songs.

“So that’s why I wrote an album about; being young. The joy, the recklessness, the hedonism, the heartbreak, the unrequited love, the messiness, the awkwardness, the nights etherealized in banter and shared trauma. These songs read like diary pages, and it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do to let my guard down.”

As for his inspiration, they come from a mix of music genres that had an impact on him last year and include country, folk and new age; and of course they come with his signature touch of electric edge to them.

“I hope you listen to this album in bed when you need a good cry, or when you find yourself overwhelmed with gratitude for your friends, or when you’re driving home after breaking up with someone.”

While the album is very much set for a target audience, given the emotions it represents, in no terms it is the kind of music that other age groups will feel alienated from. If there are chaotic emotions, the music and specifically the lyrics will surely connect with you.

Mashable Pakistan asked him that given that the “dead Beat poets” has come out a short while after his last album, was this a spontaneous thing or was he thinking about making music that focuses on youth and the life of a 20 year old.

“I made the album during quarantine, and it was already done around September. Normally, you’re supposed to promote an album for a few months before putting out another one, but because I spent 6 months releasing singles from “Heterotopia”, by the time it came out, I felt like it had run its course. I also just feel like, as much as I loved “Heterotopia”, it wasn’t very representative of what 2020 was like for me, or how I’m feeling now. So I just didn’t want to wait until after the moment was over to release ‘dead Beat poets’.”

Asked if there is any plan to perform the album infront of a live audience in some form, Siddiqui shared;

“I think it depends on how it’s received, honestly. I think this album is definitely easier to perform live than my other material because it contains far more acoustic instruments. That said, I really have no idea whether people are going to like it! Or at least like it enough to warrant live shows. But I would be very excited to get back on stage, it’s been too long.”

Originally published at https://pk.mashable.com on January 22, 2021.