Praises - EP4 (2021)

I remember the third EP by the Canadian artist Jesse Crowe's project Praises as one of my favourite albums of the last year. Not surprisingly, this year's EP4 is almost as good and absolutely worth-mentioning on the blog.

Crowe's music balances somewhere between ethereal ambient pop and industrial-flavoured electronica. However, it also shows a lot of catchy melodies and compositions that make some of her songs my instant classics - like it is with the EP's closure in A World on Fire. But before that, there's three more songs: the opening ballad Apples for My Love, the more post-punk-esquely aggressive and cold We Let Go and Soil - a song that brings some of artsy chaos to the picture: Crowe's vocals become here theatrical and more into pop's melodiousness while the music is very much unpredictable. And finally, A World on Fire adds a madly catchy chorus on top of the unnerving, anxious theme. My favourite kind of combination.

EP4 costs 4 CAD.

Check: A World on Fire

Country: Canada

Genre: industrial synthpop

Label: Hand Drawn Dracula

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