What We Lost arriving this month, Janette King has shared another new single from the effort. Ooh Yeah finds the Montreal-based artist embracing self-confidence and self-belief in the name of growth, gliding overtop muted electronics singing, So long / Goodbye / My old self / Time to die. It follows previously shared singles Mars and Airplane, as well as the DijahSB-assisted Cool Me Down. This idea of walking into a new sense of self came from the forced time alone due to the pandemic where I was left to reflect and learn what my soul truly needs in order to feel whole, King said of her latest. The song touches on some of the positives of pandemic solitude, namely self-reflection and also rediscovering self-pleasure as a form of empowerment.
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There is very little information about ekkstacy available online, beyond the fact that he s an 18-year-old from Vancouver. Despite the secrecy, the word is already out about his haunting music, which is doing big streaming numbers by mixing whispered acoustic ballads with SoundCloud emo rap. His standout singles combine his ghostly voice with catchy instrumentation, as on the new wave bounce of i walk this earth all by myself or the 1979 -esque alt-rock of i want to be by your side.
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