Chemical Odysseys is the brand new track from NPR-featured electronic indie pop duo B.A.D.A, taken from their upcoming album Exile.
B.A.D.A are Brazilian artist & producer Pedro Cesario and Brooklynite multi-instrumentalist and producer Carey Clayton. Together they spent 2019 pursuing their ambition of conceptually deep music that differentiates itself within the crowded alternative electronic pop space.
Chemical Odysseys is a song that taps into a universal, and sadly deeply pertinent, anxiety - the fear of dying alone. Talking to the personal experience of loneliness that inspired the song, the band said:
”I lived for years in a passive state of psychedelia, trying to search for things that would allow me to stay up. Ultimately succumbing to my own loneliness and accepting it as a part of who i am is what made clean… That's part of what the world is experiencing now, I guess.”
Pulling together warm electronics, emotive vocals and psychedelic, melodic flourishes, Chemical Odysseys has a lovely, blissful feel to it. The sounds washes over you gently, creating a sense of acceptance and easiness in the listener. As it builds, the bass picks up the pace a little and the production conjures up a feeling of speed, of lightness, the audible equivalent of letting go and finding peace.