Like many others, German artist Novaa calls Bj\u00f6rk as one of her main influences. Although Novaa\u2019s quirky, electronica-driven music might hint at this fact, she is an artist like no other. Her music is too complex to be meaningfully reduced to a single point of comparison. <\/p>\n
Novaa\u2019s self-described \u201corganic electronic\u201d sound on her debut solo album Stolen Peaches<\/i>\u00a0 is sparse and calming, almost with a bucolic feel. The vocals of this 19-year-old singer\/songwriter\/producer are very mature. Her soft, timid singing style is inviting and relaxing, adding to the album\u2019s overall hushed and rustic vibe.<\/p>\n
The music and vocals on this disc seem to create a kind of forest of serenity, if you will, welcoming you into its abode. But it should be trodden carefully, because there just might be a big bad wolf lurking somewhere within, for Novaa uses the sparseness of the album to create an atmosphere that is pretty dark. A great example of this is the album highlight \u201cSex,\u201d which consists mostly of Novaa\u2019s vocals and sporadic synthesizer notes. The stillness of the song, agitated by Novaa\u2019s powerful singing and blobby synthesizer notes that come down like heavy bricks, create quite an edgy number, on which Novaa quite bluntly and nonchalantly sings about having\u2026sex!<\/p>\n
There are many facets to Stolen Peaches<\/i>, <\/i>as Novaa associates a character with every cut: \u201cMoney,\u201d \u201cSex,\u201d \u201cSleep\u201d\u2026The titles themselves speak for the moods of the songs. For instance, \u201cMoney\u201d and \u201cSex\u201d are the tracks with the most chutzpah, featuring quite the impetuous electronica sound, while \u201cHands\u201d is more intimate and not as cold. \u201cSleep\u201d sounds like an upbeat psychedelic dream, and Novaa does pretty cool things to her vocals, like making them \u201csqueal\u201d artificially, as if she sucked helium. This is a pretty common theme throughout the album, in which Novaa creates various effects with her voice, such as pulsating it to create \u201cvocal\u201d beats for example. Another album highlight, \u201cHermit\u201d is beautifully introverted. The music is delicate and pastoral, fitting \u201corganic electronic\u201d theme of the album perfectly.<\/p>\n
Stolen Peaches <\/i>has an ambience that is dark, but it is by no means a gloomy album. In fact, it sounds self-assured, confident, and positive, just like the story behind it: while trying to complete the album initially (then titled Peaches<\/i>), Novaa\u2019s car was broken into, and her laptop, which contained all the material for this album, was stolen. As a consequence, Novaa unfortunately had to start all over again, and this release was born. Considering the album\u2019s backstory, Novaa appears to be an artist with not only immense talent, but also with tons of maturity for her age. It wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if this young artist might one day herself become an influencer in the indie music world, much like the woman she presently calls her inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":32933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9918],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-44709","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-novaa","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44709","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=44709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44709"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}