Project Description
BIANCA MODESTI
‘Race Against Time’
Single Review
Reviewer – Dave Bruce
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Bianca Modesti’s new single follows on from the success of her debut single Betrayal, which aside from receiving a lot of love from radio was also a semi-finalist in a prestigious international songwriting competition. Where Betrayal was a medium-paced adult contemporary song complete with all the pop-rock trimmings, Race Against Time takes it up a notch, previewing a more energetic, fiery side of this vocalist’s incredible artistry. This new release is an in your face amalgam of pop hooks, attitude, and passionate expression of self-belief. It’s an empowerment song that might begin in earnest—a stripped down version of the chorus that’s as subtle as the song will get—but soon explodes into an all-out stadium slayer, with a relentless melody in the verses that pushes and flows with all the swagger of a rapper’s outpourings. And this is all augmented by the pulsing instrumentation, the sparkling piano at the high end, the looped drums providing a hypnotic foundation.
This then leads into the pre-chorus, with its ascending melody and open chords, providing a good balance between the verse and what’s to come—the mammoth chorus. It’s driven not only by the accented rock god guitars but by Bianca’s quasi-dramatic performance, as she takes hold of the melody and soars and surges into it before that last, long-held note. Another cycle of the same appears until the end of the second chorus which then follows through with a bridge that’s a welcome variation of some of the melodic choices that came before. All this and we haven’t even arrived at the guitar solo. But that’s up next, as blazing as the adlib Bianca belts out half way through it. Then it’s the chorus out and the listener is left breathless. The production works in tandem with the lead vocal, though at times, it’s almost as if both elements, the singer and what’s pounding out alongside them, are fighting it out for sonic supremacy. And that’s not a bad dynamic to have on a pop-rock record that explores self-empowerment.
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