Indie music by its very definition is \u201coutsider\u201d music. However, even as the line between indie music and pop music gets more blurred, the quintessential indie singer is still eccentric and shy, with vocal characteristics to match the skittish personality. But the case with Elika\u2019s Evagelia Maravelias is quite the opposite. Her sugary but vehement vocals gleam with the extrovertedness of a pop star and are a perfect fit for this Brooklyn NY duo\u2019s modern-day dreampop music, adding the feeling of normalcy and comfort.<\/p>\n
Always The Light <\/i>is an electro-indie record that is eagerly sweet and melodiousness but never needy. The best cuts on the record \u2013 \u201cStay Beside Me\u201d and \u201cYou And Me\u201d \u2013 balance gentle guitars with keyboards, resulting in smooth and lush soundscapes. Meanwhile, \u201cWe Had It All\u201d and \u201cNo One Gets Lost,\u201d which are also on par with the album\u2019s best, rely more on a less melodic purely electronic sound. The coyish indie side of the album, however, which consists of songs like \u201cCount Your Steps\u201d with its analog synthesizer sound and \u201cTrials\u201d with its unassumingly organic sound, is not worth mentioning.<\/p>\n
Elika loves instrumentals and has scored advertisements (which can be viewed on YouTube through the band\u2019s website) \u2013 and really cool ones at that, like the ad for LEGO. Although the scores might work well with an accompanying visual medium, the one to two minute music pieces on Always The Light<\/i> put a complete damper on the album\u2019s mood; worse still, there are four of them out of the album\u2019s 10 songs.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t a bad album. But the music never quite seems to do justice to Maravelias\u2019s vocals. The music doesn\u2019t have the umph to match the vitality of Maravelias\u2019s singing, which just wants to break out of the wall of modesty that the largely diffident music has built around it. Unlike a very similar act School Of Seven Bells, who has a similar vocalist in Alejandra Deheza, whose slick upbeat production compliments the gusty singing, Elika\u2019s music doesn\u2019t have the same sophistication to make Always The Light<\/i> a standout pop record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":30878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8800],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-42555","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-elika","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42555"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}