With the discharge of her newest EP ‘GHOST TOWN’, Nigerian indie-pop powerhouse SOLIS4EVR takes listeners on a dizzying journey via the complicated feelings one can expertise when coping with a damaged coronary heart.
Bursting with electrifying guitar riffs, pulsating rhythms, and 80s impressed synths, the 6-track assortment sees the ’Abeg’ singer set the all-too acquainted doom and gloom that accompanies a break-up, in opposition to up-tempo instrumentation, and bouncy lyrical anthems brimming with hope, to supply a collection of addictive, indie-pop bops that show there’s the truth is life on the opposite facet of the heartache.
Commenting on the addictive prolonged play SOLIS4EVR says: “‘GHOST TOWN’ is a world I created as a solution to launch in my life; it’s a darkish and delicate story however the beauty of being a creator is the flexibility to bend and mildew issues, so I turned one thing darkish into one thing enjoyable and pop and one thing to bop to; it’s my reward to myself, to the world. I hope it’s as therapeutic to somebody because it was for me to make!”
Within the run as much as it’s launch this week, we caught up with SOLIS4EVR to get the lowdown on ‘Ghost City’…
Congrats on the discharge of ‘GHOST TOWN’ – how does it really feel to be placing new music out into the world?
Thanks a lot! I’m simply utterly elated to placing out music once more. It took a lot to get right here so it’s one thing I don’t take without any consideration in any respect.
How would you say your new materials compares to the tracks featured in your debut EP ‘Stairway To Heaven’?
I’d say they’re in several worlds as a result of I’ve grown and altered and are available into my true self a lot extra since then. On the brand new data, you’ll be able to really feel how free in spirit I’m, how settled I’m in self and sound. I’ll all the time be pleased about the previous data as a result of they received me right here, however I’m so excited for the world to listen to the brand new.
Discuss us via your inventive course of when making new music?
I typically occasions write when I’m overcome with feeling and generally when I’m working with a producer, the beats made encourage what I’ll write about, however one factor that’s constant is that I’ll all the time faucet in to essentially the most internal elements of me. Introspection is vital.
The place’s your favorite place to put in writing?
I might write anyplace on the earth. Bodily house doesn’t actually matter as a result of I’m not right here in any case.
Do you discover you’re extra inclined to create if you’re glad, or unhappy?
Positively after I’m unhappy, oh expensive, I be having a lot to say then (laughs).
Your music touches upon just a few genres, from pop, to various soul, and indie rock – how would you greatest describe your sound?
Transcendental Pop; however actually I’m only a pop star who can not match right into a singular field.
SOLIS4EVR x Dreamer Isioma – ‘sorry 4 calling’ (Official Visualiser)
We completely LOVE ‘sorry 4 calling’ which is among the EP’s stand out tracks! You’ve actually flipped the narrative, and put a contemporary, intelligent twist on the normal break up tune – what impressed you to put in writing a tune from that perspective?
How I strategy songwriting is that I simply attempt to be as sincere as potential. It’s additionally therapeutic after I’m addressing the individual/emotions chargeable for the document instantly; it brings all of the feelings to the forefront.
Musically, there’s an actual sense of hopefulness that offsets the sentiment behind the lyric. Did you discover making this single to be fairly a cathartic expertise?
It was, the truth is, tremendous cathartic to put in writing this document and it was a really intentional transfer, juxtaposing the upbeat quirky nature of the beat with its forlorn lyrics; it made a state of affairs that was in any other case unlucky, enjoyable and foolish and one thing to bop to!
How would you like listeners to really feel after they hear the observe? And what recommendation would you give to anyone who has been ghosted?
I need them to bop all of the negativity away, to place them in a transient state of boogie, the place ache doesn’t exist, or the place ache might be launched as freedom.
The one encompasses a particular visitor vocal by Dreamer Isioma – how did that collaboration come about?
I had been a fan of Dreamer for some time and after I was considering of potential collaborators, they had been one of many first on my record. So I hit them up on Instagram and so they had been down and Voila!
Wanting again, did you all the time dream of turning into a singer / recording artist? Which artists / musicians (if any) impressed you to get into music?
It’s all I’ve ever recognized; my first reminiscences in life are of music. I’ve recognized since I used to be a child. Beyoncé, clearly. Additionally, Hannah Montana. I needed to be a Disney child so unhealthy lol.
You latterly signed a brand new cope with Troniq Music – the way it feels to be making HERstory as the primary feminine artist to be signed to the label?
I really feel blessed and honored, and I really feel a accountability to cleared the path, to proceed to make herstory for each my and my document labels legacy. There’s a lot to be performed!
What do you hope to realize in 2024?
I can not wait to go on tour. In numerous cities, nations, continents. The bodily areas of music is what I want most to occupy; to have the ability to meet the those who my music has touched, to bridge that hole and join with them. I can not look forward to all of that.
SOLIS4EVR’s new EP ‘Ghost City’ is accessible to obtain / stream now
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