Girl As Wave – From The Blue

Between melancholy and lightness

“From The Blue” by Girl As Wave imme­di­ately caught my atten­tion with its clear, feath­er-light synth pop sound. The song strikes a bal­ance between mel­an­choly and light­ness, float­ing almost weight­lessly over the gently pulsat­ing beats. What par­tic­u­larly fas­cin­ates me is the fem­in­ine, har­mo­ni­ous vocals that glide per­fectly over the soundscape—almost fra­gile, yet determ­ined at the same time.

The clas­sic hand claps set rhythmic accents remin­is­cent of clas­sic elec­tro pop, while the almost space-age organs lean a little towards Ladytron. These details give the track char­ac­ter, but nev­er make it seem over­loaded. Nevertheless, it is pre­cisely because the song sounds so flaw­lessly con­struc­ted that I would have liked to hear a little more emo­tion­al vari­ation in the vocals in some places – the cool, detached deliv­ery seems inten­tion­al, but also a little monotonous.

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