Now it is music: “Reach Out” by Sadie tries to atone with a listeners’ loneliness and it does so in a wonderful way because it gets it. starting the track with anxiety-inducing synths that provide a feeling of something just at the edge of your mind, not quite within grasp of your conscious grasps before going into chugging guitar lines that pound like a drum, and move in a way that feels insistent. Sadie sings with an appeal to both the face and the heart as she deals out love and returns to the realities of life. The spectral fade out throughout tracks ‘Yeah Yeah’ reminds me of Buckley’s melody queening, wrenching emotion out of beauty and power. By the time propulsive layers of guitars reached into the climax, it is nearly impossible not to feel a burst of energy in the middle of despair. ‘Reach Out’ is not a song, it is a call for one to address the disturbing fact of life as known by Michael Jackson.
