Carbon Copy (Single)
A mysterious, otherworldy soundscape from producer HOLTERGEIST sets the tone for the alluring and emotive vocals of singer-songwriter Amanda Huff. (LMTL-042)
This is not your average production music track. Slip on your headphones, put in your airpods, cancel the noise, and you’ll quickly hear how Carbon Copy (LMTL-042) is anything but expected.
Push play and enter a dreamlike world with a dark and ominous sonic landscape. Oscillating sound design, dramatic single strums from a defiant electric guitar, and a warm, enveloping synth bass from producer HOLTERGEIST serve as a musical soundscape for the captivating voice of Amanda Huff. The singer-songwriter uses her lower register to almost whisper a secret confession of an abstract vision with two beings entangled in a dream that borders on a nightmare. In the aftermath, a distant and emotionally stirring violin performed by Abby Gundersen (Phoebe Bridgers, SYML, Noah Gundersen) takes the track to an unsettling end.
We asked Huff about her initial reactions to hearing the track before adding her vocals :
“I hit play on the instrumental and my body immediately gets the chills. Felt like I was blanketed in a thick fog. All I could think was that you do not create a track like that without an internal sense of searching. The textures of sonar and static against the warmth of the bass, it elicits a very specific type of somber you can only access when in motion. I wanted to be able to honor that environment, so I pretended like I had a finite well of how much breath I was allotted to use.”
This single can (and should) quite literally be the voice of an opening credits sequence, the psychological primer to a character-driven narrative draped in mystery, suspense, or as Huff describes, “fragile intimacy amidst the chaos.” If you enjoy the alternative pop of artists as varied as Bjork, Billie Eilish, Kate Bush, or Portishead, you’ll easily find a resonating frequency within the voice and words of Amanda Huff on “Carbon Copy.”
Visual storytellers, fearless music supervisors, and creative editors : do not sleep on this dreamy and melodramatic track.
For a full session production and mix breakdown of “Carbon Copy” by producer HOLTERGEIST that takes you from the initial sketches to the finished version, check out the video below:
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