MoeDeLL – Porch Single Review: The Simple Life

MoeDeLL’s new single “Porch” gives off a mainstream country music vibe that is more than welcome in today’s musical landscape. While Porch does right by Country music, the diversity of the genre has grown to eclipse a traditional country song such as this, which tries to do without bells and whistles and instead tells an enjoyable tale. Because of this, if you’re a fan of old-school country, this track won’t fall on deaf ears.

Porch opens up with “This old lawnchair don’t cut it anymore. Gonna chop down the tree and build me a porch.” These lines and the chorus serve as the cornerstones of the track as a whole. Porch is a song about admiring the simple and smaller things in life. Lines such as “Makin’ memories up on this porch, made our home better a little better than before” reinforce this fact, followed by the chorus of “You and me, we’re doin’ all right, sitting up here watchin’ the world go by” solidifying the tone of the track as a whole.

The vocals of MoeDeLL, unfortunately, don’t add much in the way of personality to the track. At the same time, it’s not his fault and more that of the producer. The track has a reverb effect that makes it sound like he’s speaking out of a loudspeaker the entire time, which limits any noticeable shift in vocal tone. This makes the track feel without personality or real emotion outside the jolly one felt in the chorus, which puts the weight of the song on the instrumentals. While not a bad bet, the instrumentals don’t kick into real overdrive until about halfway through the track. Fortunately, when they do pick up, the song relishes in its heavy percussion and twangy guitars which will put no doubt make a country fan smile.

In the end, Porch is a track that is more reminiscent of a country song of yesteryear. One can’t help but wonder what a track like Porch would have done to the landscape of the early 2000s, where it would have seemed more at home. The inspirations that give Country its appeal today are very different and take heavy inspirations from Pop and Hip-Hop. The absence of these elements, coupled with the lack of any emotional backing from the vocals, make Porch a track that will best be enjoyed by nostalgic ears.