Get Down - Avi Kaplan
3:10
3:10
single, 2019
Written by Avi Kaplan
I'd never heard of Kaplan (he was a member of the well-known a cappella band Pentatonix before leaving in 2017 to pursue a solo career), but I heard this song on the TV show "Resident Alien" and I had to know more. It's a folk-rock burner with gospel bones, built on heavy, stomping percussion and a bass voice that could level a barn. Kaplan leans into that register with real purpose, turning the whole thing into a gritty benediction of resilience. Over that percussion evocative of handclaps, his powerful bass voice thunders out an affirmation of optimism. "Ain′t nothing gonna take my fire / Ain't nothing gonna crush my soul." It's a fun listen with an uplifting message; his voice does the lion’s share of the work, sure, yet the arrangement holds its own: earthy, pulsing, and sturdier than it has any right to be.
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