If most songs that are described as taking the listener on a sonic journey tend to go from soft to loud, from spacious to bombastic, “Holiday From My Mind” takes us on a different kind of musical adventure. It’s all about a sense of scale. While WØLFFE’s latest single does evolve as it goes, it seems to move merely from the subtle to the serene, the graceful to the gracefully groovesome. It may start with a whispered vibe, but for all its sonic growth, four minutes on, it is still in the realms of brooding understament and seductive spaciousness. It’s a song all about effortless and incremental change, all about the fine details.
There is something filmic, noirish even, about its shaded cinematics, something that links forward-thinking digital music making with the timelessness of the classic soundtrack. There is also something that reminds me of Bat For Lashes at Natasha Khan’s most shaded writing, and that is a reference point that I don’t throw around lightly.
Listen to this ornate and original piece of underground pop, and you find it no surprise that WØLFFE cites the likes of David Lynch, (not to mention Kurt Vonnegut) as an inspiration. I should also add that the term “underground pop” is hardly the right term for an artist whose singles have garnered 1.7 million listens and whose music is found peppered across the big and small screen, but the inherent outsiderness and intimacy are the whole point.
It is the fact that she can make music that is so popular yet which sounds like something that is a private conversation with the listener, which is suitable for mass media consumption yet reminds me of those songs that you accidently discover and feel, for a while at least, as if you are the only person in the world to be aware of them, means that there is not one corner of the music industry that she doesn’t appeal to, which she can’t conquer.
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