Album Review: Cende Releases A Record of “#1 Hit Single”
Imagine your life was an invisible cage, of which music was the only key that could break the hard, hidden cell. The louder more raucous you play, the more the cell breaks, your heart beats, and sincerity pulses through your mind. While statements can be silent, at times, they need to be as big as Cende’s #1 Hit Single.
The Brooklyn Rock quartet brings riotous chords and lyrics to their debut record aimed at erasing the bad times and enlarging the good ones. Such a mentality, is revered and understandable when you face old wounds or boring routines that cannot seem to be healed or undone. It is in that mind-frame that Cende’s record finds it rebelliousness. At times, the biggest rebel is not the one causing harm as much as the one choosing to heal and go counter to all those living in madness rather than spiritual wildness. Hence, tracks like “What I Want”, “Out Of The City”, and “While I’m Alive” feel like music declarations that, even for a night, BS will be sided and Good Times will be LIVED. The band centers around its two principal songwriters of Cameron Wisch and Dave Medina, of which Wisch’s infectious melodies and precise song structures are complemented by Medina’s raw and highly energetic punk anthems. Together they try to bring a catchy, creative chaos to power-pop that exhilarates listeners. while also giving them some lyrical substance to chew upon. Having gone together to Purchase College, I could see why they would want to bring the worlds they learned about into the lives they have lived, which explains why songs “Moment Too Late”, “Erase The Line”, and “Bed” are each tracks that bring a philosophical nuance to dissatisfaction. Whether it be with your life or your love, dissolution is both historically and universally common, and Cende approach their words and melodies as if they are adding a new, bold thought-process unto how we see the loneliness of failure.
Blending a quick drum and guitar with the slow, moody vocals of Wisch, from “Don’t Want To” to “Void”, the band constructs pacing according to the needs of their point. Having a band that meticulously theorizes life with a casual rock riff and drumroll explains why Cende is quickly becoming so favored on the music scene. For More Information On Cende Click Here.
