The fanciful magic of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream dances through our ears and paints evocative images of beauty and chaos in our minds as KYYN serenades us with Arabesque, which is loosely based off of one of the motifs from Debussy’s Arabesque which depicts what it may have been like to be one of the faeries from the play. It’s an utterly beautiful experimental electropop piece from the Brooklyn singer songwriter, a gorgeously chiffon fantasy land, always shifting, ever kinetic. The intricately drifting, misty baroque jewel finds a halcyon balance between tranquil and dynamic, peaceful and restless, like a serene lake under the caress of a capricious breeze. Every ripple is recorded, every crest and furrow manifests in Arabesque’s mesmerizing tides. KYYN co-produced the song with Tiger Darrow, giving us one of the more remarkably refined soundscapes we’ve encountered this year.
