![]() In love, though we yearn to be one with another, we are still separate individuals. Caesar writes “First you love me, then you leave me in the basement, I know I’m you’re favorite”. Hold Me Down employs a trippy synthesizer, backed up with echoing drums to ponder the games we play in love. This is a perfect transition to the next track. ![]() The song is an expression of the hesitance to “say something”, as he puts it. He sings, “You’re the Tylenol I take when my head hurts.” Through a 4-chord guitar-centric background track that runs deep, we come to realize that the song is emphasizing the hesitance to announce one’s own dependence on another. ![]() With the help of H.E.R.’s whispery harmonies, Caesar describes the feelings of dependence. Whereas most artists would portray lightheartedness and pleasure, Caesar’s sound brings light to the idea that with luck comes the perpetual fear of loss. A slow bouncy beat equipped with quiet funky background guitar riffs, a buzzy bassline, and a dramatic falsetto chorus, culminating into a full picture of what it means to feel lucky to be in love. The album starts with, his pre-released single, Get You. Features from artists Kali Uchis, H.E.R, Syd, and Charlotte Day Wilson allow the album to express female perspectives as well. A meditation on all the suppressed feelings of passion, the ghost emotions that whisper underneath the surface of love. The name of the album so-correctly captures it’s essence. His dreamy, pure singing style and bouncy synthesizers target some of the deepest human emotions. Building up to his first full album, Caesar found his niche in a fusion between gospel, soul, rock and R&B. Since then, Caesar has produced another EP, Pilgrim’s Paradise, and 3 singles, 2 of which appear on his newest project. His second EP Praise – produced mainly in his own living room – brought him into the public sphere of recognition. ![]() Having been kicked out of school in 11th grade, Caesar has experienced great hardship, from homelessness, to heartbreak, to struggling to make ends meet while nurturing his musical talents. He has gained much of his acclaim through the release of short, powerful EPs. 25, 2017, and has since climbed to number six on the Billboard Top 100 R&B ranking. The album consists of 10 tracks, making it his first full length work. Toronto R&B singer Daniel Caesar’s debut studio album Freudian gives artistic form to that central pillar of being human. To love, to lose, to suffer, to love again. As I walked across the arts quad on a nippy Tuesday evening, I began to hear vibrations that resonated with the current zeitgeist of my soul. ![]()
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