Vince Leigh’s Single: I’m With You by Lark
By Vince Leigh (Ex drummer of Pseudo Echo, Tina Arena and John Farnham) of Australian Radio Promotion for Sheldon Ang Media
Sydneysider Lark has just released her fifth single, I’m With You, another contemporary pop track that inhabits more of a dance-pop space and utilizes an indiscriminately direct lyric to bring to life a positive, inclusive message. The new one follows a series of singles, including We Love US!, Hit The Record and Unicorn.
With a musical career spanning almost three decades, Lark has obviously had time to sharpen her creative aim, which is the sense one gets listening to I’m With You. Despite the track’s competent melodic structure, arrangement and considered instrumentation, the song ultimately becomes a vehicle for the lyric and the energy and focus behind it. Most of it comprises list-like configurations, from the verses’ unblinking counsel, ‘You’re a lioness / You’re an echo in the silence/ A superhero out for justice / You know you got it all’ to the chorus’s rather more streamlined but no less forceful single line missive, a chiming ‘I’m with you’, a vigorously performed summation that is no less effective for its simplicity.
It is these references, these allusions from which I’m With You derives its primary source of heat—vocal performance notwithstanding. We all desire such attentive, melodious coaching; such unrepentant positive energy sprinkled our way. As Lark articulates about her latest release, ‘While the song’s underlying message is significant, I intended it to be a joyful homage to love and acceptance.’ We get that sense, and the melodic choices, the EDM signifiers, and the performance substantiate Lark’s well-reasoned intentions. Another element that helps bolster Lark’s objective is the track’s production; it maintains a dance-pop array of sounds and textures but also utilises space, keeping instrumentation to a necessary minimum, a reliable quarter-note groove, the drum builds, the background layers, thereby allowing the vocal and subsequently the lyric to remain the focus and the song’s alluring attribute.
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