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Tetra is an electronic musician from Los Angeles with a raw and rootsy approach on her new EP, Meter. Tetra’s voice, like her music, is soulful and bluesy, a feat rare in a genre notorious for regularly being devoid of both. Songs like the evocative and guttural lead single “Bad Things” actually feel at times as if they began with a blues background and were attached to an electronic format.
Her lyrics often deal with relationships and love but in a left-of-center manner like the masters notorious for this, Depeche Mode. The songs are passionate and honest, but as she herself sings, they seem to all be “loveless love song[s],” detailing nights of drinking, partying, and transparent debauchery.
“Poison” shows her at her best: An operatic ability to take you on a rollercoaster ride in a single song. A single moment can be stripped bare with only a basic, pulsating rhythm for support, and the next moment there’s an explosion of synths, energy, and emotion. For all of the partying, the song ends with “The Tunnel,” which sounds like an attempt to catch her breath, as if the sun is inevitably rising and the night is ending. Meter is a captivating and bold EP, and will be released June 11th.
