Daniel Ye transmutes a heady mélange of wooly alt-rock influences into his densely layered output as dye, giving voice to deeply rooted personal emotions with unrelenting honestly and imbued with the natural immediacy of pop songcraft. Ye’s latest single, “feeL,” is aptly titled; an intensely physical experience that bludgeons and caresses in equal measure.
Ethereal vocals drift in a gaussian haze of sparse, reverb guitar that slowly builds into a rising crescendo before exploding outward in a torrent of densely fuzzed riffs, tumbling through the composition with the unstoppable momentum of a car crash rendered in exquisite slow motion. The symphony of destruction heaves with a mesmerizing beauty, moving with an overpowering sense of blissful disassociation best experienced at maximum volumes to smother the senses in the cataclysmic surges of sound. Structurally, “feeL” is closely adjacent to The Smashing Pumpkin’s “Mayonaise” right down to the piercing guitar accents, but dye also folds in the gorgeous brutality of later-era Deftones and the beguiling delicacy of shoegaze kingpins My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive for a uniquely modern interpretation of the mainstream alternative.