“High Society” is a track off of the Free Spirit EP written and recorded by the band Fictionist. The album and corresponding track was written by Stuart Maxfield, Robbie Connolly, Brandon Kitterman, and Aaron Anderson. Free Spirit was released on July 29th, 2016. (Harbour Recordings) This song utilizes a lot of electronic sounds to create an atmosphere of different timbres The introduction to High Society starts with a synthesizer “progression”, of which term I will choose to use loosely, that lasts approximately ten seconds before subduing itself into the first verse devoid of any instrumentation other than drums and bass guitar. The sampled electronic keyboard or piano-like synthesizer sound returns later on in an even more
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However, the entrance of a different type of synthesizer patch different from the one in the intro signals a change of mood right at the particular lyric “gorgeous”. This patch is even less piano sounding than the one used in the intro and has sort of an open space feeling to it. Underneath the lyrics there is a slight ‘progression’ that I mentioned earlier that uses the roots F, G, Ab, Bb to C which is once used as background material but is used again in a more pronounced way to propel the song into the chorus. The use of guitar and the more piano-like synthesizer play this figure a little louder and land on open C playing the C to G figure repeatedly from the …show more content…
The use of synthesizer and the particular patch chosen even alludes to a type of hip-hop sound that was present in the 90s in tracks like ‘This is How We Do It’ by Montell Jordon or some of Snoop Dogg’s popular tracks from that era. Of course, popular ‘classic rock’ groups could have inspired this sound to something of the likes of Zeppelin’s more high octane charts. Stuart Maxfield and the rest of the band do not write an awful lot about their own material therefore not leaving us with many clues as to the source of the style. The off-beat hi hat with typical 2 and 4 snare placement mixed with a heavy bass guitar emphasis place this in a class of funk for me. Still, there is an element of hard rock distortion that can’t be ignored that sort of gives this beast its own sort of indie
However, the entrance of a different type of synthesizer patch different from the one in the intro signals a change of mood right at the particular lyric “gorgeous”. This patch is even less piano sounding than the one used in the intro and has sort of an open space feeling to it. Underneath the lyrics there is a slight ‘progression’ that I mentioned earlier that uses the roots F, G, Ab, Bb to C which is once used as background material but is used again in a more pronounced way to propel the song into the chorus. The use of guitar and the more piano-like synthesizer play this figure a little louder and land on open C playing the C to G figure repeatedly from the …show more content…
The use of synthesizer and the particular patch chosen even alludes to a type of hip-hop sound that was present in the 90s in tracks like ‘This is How We Do It’ by Montell Jordon or some of Snoop Dogg’s popular tracks from that era. Of course, popular ‘classic rock’ groups could have inspired this sound to something of the likes of Zeppelin’s more high octane charts. Stuart Maxfield and the rest of the band do not write an awful lot about their own material therefore not leaving us with many clues as to the source of the style. The off-beat hi hat with typical 2 and 4 snare placement mixed with a heavy bass guitar emphasis place this in a class of funk for me. Still, there is an element of hard rock distortion that can’t be ignored that sort of gives this beast its own sort of indie