Vania softly pierces the tippy top of her upper melodic register convincingly on her new single Only You. It enhances the songs emotional affect, a sensual yearning bordering on destructive infatuation if not returned by the target of affection.
Clever compositional shifts add elegant surprise. It’s a smart pop arrangement with some retro flare in a way that bridges the realms of FKA Twigs with Christine and the Queens. We think she’s brilliant.
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Our favorite emerging Liverpool songstress Evelyn Halls who releases music as Pet Snake just dropped another gem with her new single Getting Older. A treasure trove of sonic treasures lurk like bio chemical intrusions beneath the tempos magnetic pump as the essence of the song fights its way to the forefront.
There’s a conceptual reflection in how it’s produced. The lyrical content suggests they’re on the cusp of an eruption but they’ve got the serenity to work it out. “I’m getting older but it feels right.”
30’s the new 20 and so on and so on, Pet Snake has us feeling flush. Stylistically we think Getting Older has real crossover appeal in the spirit of indie breakthroughs like Sharon Van Etten and Phoebe Bridgers. Get in, you’re still early.
Pet Snake is featured on our Best New Indie Playlist.
We were drawn to the genuine charm of later on, the new single from frans asthma. The melody’s initial lullaby swing enwraps you playfully. It adapts in the chorus section with an added assertiveness and some rhythmic surprise to shake you out of your entangled stupor. The song embraces a collective contrast that waivers between melancholy and blissful, as if the chill affect of the vocal performance is just a byproduct of self satisfaction within the perplexing crisis that swirls around us.
Why so serious? It’s an easy listen but there’s a more complicated emotional construct built in, attaching itself to a rare shared human sensibility, existing in song as an emotional memento. Stylistically it bridges the realms of The Shins and Alex G with new poetic brilliance. We adore it.
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