Alessia Cara-Four Pink Walls (Review)
So I am little late about this review, so my apolgizes folks. Now I am so excited to hear about this shining starlet breaking the music gates, Northern Gates that is. Canada’s music frontier is growing with 19 year old newcomer, Alessia Cara.
Alessia is Def Jam’s newest artist pairing with the subsdiary label EP Entertainment. A spunky, electic soulbird with sounds blending pop, soul, new age R&B and a splash of hip-hop. She broke digital waves this summer with her debut single “Here” a throwback soulful ballad about being the wallflower at the party and the irritation of being in a big crowd while waiting for friends to go home. In way the song have become the new Anti-Party anthem of the decade, not going by the other party singles you hear in the airwaves today.
She has recently dropped the gleaming EP Four Pink Walls last Friday to the world to listen. An array of genres flows through this 5-track opus from the previous influences with sharp song-writing skills to boot. From “I’m Yours”, a synth-pop number where Alessia explains the hatred of falling in love and telling her new beau to promise not to hurt her like the others, to “Outlaws” a throwback doo-wop gem describing Alessia’s relationship as “Bonnie & Clyde” while running away and facing the world together.
The three standout tracks that really wowed me is “Four Pink Walls”, “Seventeen” and the debut single. “Four Pink Walls” is a hip-hop soul composition about the rise of fame and being careful for what you wish for. This song is special because it shows her versatility in her voice, but also her writitng skills shows that she can go from ballad to autobiographical flawlessly. “Seventeen” is the sore thumb in the EP, in a great good way. “Seventeen” is the most pop-influenced song on the project, but the thing about this song is that it shows Alessia is not just a one niche act and could have massive crossover appeal to other listeners.
Already getting rave reviews and compared to her counterpart Lorde, Alessia has a great future and this is not the last we will hear from Ms.Cara.
Standout Tracks: “Here” “Four Pink Walls” “Seventeen”