Rehya Stevens’ melodious voice and style on “Comedown” suggests a song about love in an earnest way but the song has some moody and brooding elements in the background that immediately let you know this is going to be a different kind of song. Stevens offers images of walking through a beautiful day giving clarity to her view of someone, perhaps even herself, who feels like they’re riding high on their self esteem and recent experiences that affirm their self-conception and ego. But Stevens sings about the inevitable comedown from that high and how one has to reconcile living with realistic ups and downs of life and with the reality that life won’t and can’t always be comprised of those peak moments. Stevens makes this perspective relatable in the vocabulary of a pop song and that’s why it hits a little deeper. The finely syncopated rhythms and the expert turns of phrase in Stevens delivery lends the song emotional complexity that its separate, relatively minimal elements along don’t make obvious until the end of the song. In the broad realm of music the beautiful synth work in the song is reminiscent of the likes of darkwave and adjacent acts like Nuovo Testamento and Dark Chisme and how both bridge creative and emotionally rich production with dance pop. One can easily hear Stevens’ sensibility working well in those contexts. Listen to “Comedown” on YouTube and follow Rehya Stevens at the links below.
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