VERONICA showcases the scope and range of her immersive, jazz-infused sound on her debut EP Let My Thoughts Go
Having emerged towards the end of last year with the release of her debut single ‘Ground To Dust’, rising pop artist VERONICA has been steadily establishing herself as a rising force in modern music, crafting the kind of soulful, emotion-first ballads that resonate with listeners at their core and leave an impactful, memorable impression, and her debut EP Let My Thoughts Go offers the most fully-formed showcase of her sound and style to date.
The EP opens with ‘Neo-Solitude’, a track characterised by its softness and the tender and compelling nature of VERONICA’s nuanced and layered vocals. There is a stylish neo-soul feel to the track, accented by fun jazz chords that add a bit more of a sense of flavour to the track while still maintaining the sense of composure and clarity that keeps things feeling grounded.
There is a Latin-tinged feel to ‘Sometimes, It’s Bossa’, a track that has a stunning, nostalgic feel to it while allowing the intrumentation to playfully meander and make for these lush sonic touches and intricacies that compliment VERONICA’s vocals effortlessly.
The laid-back tone of the EP comes to an abrupt halt on ‘Projecting’, a track that immediately greets you with hard hitting percussive hits and sees the artist channelling emotions like rage and resentment as it progresses. As VERONICA’s work so often does, these emotions build over time in a way that feels organic and raw, and there is an incessantly immersive and catchy feel to it that brings you along for every step of the journey.
The previously mentioned ‘Ground To Dust’ follows, the track that the artist used to announce herself as an artist, and the piano-driven track has a tenderness to it that is accentuated by its stripped back nature. Alongside the more soulful and string-oriented ‘Mama!’, the two tracks are tied together thematically as they explore themes like the intensity fading away in a relationship and being left to salvage what you’re left with in the aftermath, providing a really thoughtful end to the EP, and one that feels endlessly relatable.
The collection of tracks as a whole do a great job of highlight the breadth and ambition of the rising UK artist’s appeal, exploring themes like love and self-doubt alongside a backdrop of stunning instrumentation that would feel captivating in a wide range of cultural contexts and eras, and it is the authenticity and rawness of every word she says and every note that she sings that truly brings it home and makes it resonate and feel powerful.
