NYC-based singer and songwriter Vania teamed up with Spanish experimental electronic pop band Cravat for an utterly transporting and entrancing single “Only You.” The song is about a relationship that really isn’t so great for either person but in which there’s something to the bond even though it involves hurt feelings as the cost of staying together. Vania’s lilting vocals with a touch of processing sounds like a pop star from another world dancing in the unconventional rhythms crafted as tonal swells and drifts of percussive tone guided by a pulsing rhythm. It’s like a true fusion of chillwave, hyperpop and IDM and drawing on the sense of melancholic nostalgia of the first, the otherworldly structures of the second and the free association of aesthetics, sounds and technologies to craft beats borrowed from across decades baked into the third. Though the song is frank in its winking embrace of the elements of dysfunction that are part of many relationships that aren’t meant to last it celebrates the feelings that went into forming them. Listen to “Only You” on Spotify and follow Vania at the links provided.
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