The Atif “New York, New Year”

The opening spoken word relays a cautionary prose of the alluring energy aligned with the City that never sleeps. The Electric guitar play is epic, the riffs are scintillating and boisterous. The Atif delivers a sensational performance on his latest recording “New York, New Year”, releasing the single right in time for the holidays. 

Reminiscent of late 80s stadium themed anthems this single is charged with grit, candor, and humor paying tribute to New York like only a true New Yorker could. 

The lyrics are cunning, and inundated with ambition. The Atif performs arpeggios that are complex strumming the electric guitar like an adroit guitarist exhibiting compelling riffs. Filled with promise for the New Year this song hearkens on following your dreams with a New Yorker’s sense of sarcasm. Rooted in the alluring lights that enrapture all who come to conquer the city this song is also rich in nuance which is layered in the form of spoken word. 

The Atif exclaims “it ain’t a mystery when you learn, you gotta do what you want and what you should” and a couple of lines later optimism is abated with “stone cold nightmare, warm hearts don’t care”, those ambivalent lines epitomizes the lure that is the New York, New Year.