Tessa Lee’s music forms in a nuanced plane, uniting contemporary pop with vintage tones of blues, folk rock, and Americana. It is designed not as music per se but as a language of expression unique to her human experience. Only there are no vowels and consonants. Instead there’s mercurial rhythms, dancing vocals, sharp acoustics, and an overarching sense of fluidity. Her latest release is ‘Mountains’. Inspired by the mountains of Tasmania, the song is posed as a landscape with valleys of rhythm overlapping and layering each other. It has the raw and rough edges of 20th-century rock, rolling into the softness of modern pop as we know it.
This contrast in gradients is natural and essential, as they lap at each other. It is the very essence of her songwriting. The string instrumentals are wiry grooves, tracing sharp lines across fuzzy riff frames and her smoky vocal frames. Refracted melodies carry sentiments that knot and tangle into each other to create a complex tapestry that tells a meaningful story of provenance, nostalgia, and other homebound themes. Listen Now!
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