Sporting the fashionable demeanor that she does, one can be half-inclined to imagine that indie pop singer/songwriter Tracee Perrin is a pure neo-soul artist within the truest custom of the motion, however fairly the opposite is true.

As anybody who offers her new EP The Clearing a spin will discover out in its 5 sterling songs, Perrin is something however a predictable daughter of style politics. The Clearing is a daring, intrepidly crafted providing that transcends its aesthetical parameters proper out of the gate and doesn’t tether itself to any of the fashionable actions at the moment shaping the sound of mainstream music. Perrin goes all in with us right here and leaves a solidly memorable impression any manner you take a look at it.

The titular observe in The Clearing is probably its most intense. Combined with a uncooked tonality that squares off with Perrin’s melodic vocal, this track twists and writhes with contempt for the usual pop system. Punctuated with memorable percussive components that appear to crash into one another earlier than we ever contact on the refrain, the grooves that make up the framework of the composition waste no time pummeling us with colourful beats. Paradoxically, as rife with conceptualism as this observe and the equally daring “Solely Up From Right here” are, the instrumentation couldn’t be way more slicing and vivid within the ultimate product. Simply when it feels just like the partitions are going to break down round us on this track, the melody appears to repeatedly discover a manner to make sure our survival on the whim of a fleeting concord.

“Wreck My Ship” is a little more saturated in physicality than the agency “Champion” is, however the distinction between the 4 makes for very intriguing listening when taking in The Clearing as a whole piece. “Poison within the Water” has this understated urgency about it that’s seductive and considerably standoffish initially, slowly turning into the anthemic slice of pop/rock that it inevitably grows into. “Solely Up From Right here” is decidedly extra affected person, however includes a groove that flirts with recklessness often, making the pristine high quality of its vocal observe all of the extra magnified.

That’s sensible producing, however furthermore, it’s provocative stylization from an artist who proves right here that she will roll with the most effective of them – on both facet of the soundboard.

Devoid of economic filler and studded with sinfully addictive grooves that begin robust and end simply as properly, Tracee Perrin’s new EP hits the spot for pop and rock followers the identical. There are loads of layers to Perrin’s sonic profile that this file begins to dig into, and though there’s loads of room left for her to increase this sound in future releases, there’s no query that we get a reasonably good thought of who she is and what she’s all about on this prolonged play, as brief and easy as it might be. With the momentum behind her profession not waning within the least coming into 2024, I’ve a superb feeling that that is simply the beginning of one thing very thrilling from this extremely expert performer. To me, this can be fairly the usual to exceed sooner or later.

Mindy McCall