Having already built up over five-million streams and placement within several TV shows, LA-based musician Derek Simpson is rapidly building up a following. Whilst Simpson pursues a singer-songwriter style, as opposed to leveraging acoustic guitars or piano, he assembles his songs like a collage, from samples, and fragments of his own prior unused musical work.
On Saturn Returns, Simpson has created a softly mutating piece of melodic pop. Muted guitar supports hushed vocals, creating a spectral, cosmic atmosphere befitting the song’s title. As the song gradually slides into its chorus, taut, digital bass provides a spacious, elastic feeling. Small melodic details twinkly in the song’s background like stars in the sky. Overall, Derek has created a beautiful, layered and distinctive sounding song that leaves me feeling like I am floating in space.
Saturn Returns is lifted from Derek’s Simpson’s new album, Somehow. Each of the album’s ten songs will be released as consecutive singles, each Thursday for ten weeks, starting with Saturn Returns. Check it out below: