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Lo Artiz Pokes Some Lighthearted Fun at Our Dysfunctional Ways of Coping With a World on the Brink With the Neo-Soul Single “the last of us”

Lo Artiz leans heavy into her neo-soul sound on “the last of us.” The nuanced accents on the beat give it a different feel than a lot of music in the realm of R&B these days in that they’re solid and anchor the song into a strong groove. The singer’s voice is playful and sultry in delivering words about ways many of us cope with this sense of impending doom that seems to hang over the world for anyone actually paying attention and sensitive to the forces that much of the power centers of our civilization have been able to ignore because wealth has shielded them from the worst consequences but now it’s just inescapable. So who can blame people for taking not the healthiest choices in offsetting the ambient despair through self-medication, not always the most ideal sexual experiences but something to take our minds off how real things have been and the various ways we plug ourselves into the lives of others whether they’re people we know or celebrities who may or may not deserve our attention. Lo Artiz pokes fun at these impulses in the song while acknowledging sometimes we humans don’t always know a better way of dealing with life unvarnished and without filters. Listen to “the last of us” on Spotify and follow Lo Artiz at the links below. Look out for her sophomore album out September 2023.

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Lo Artiz Leans Into Her Heartache on the Neo Soul Single “get by”

Lo Artiz has taken a major bout of heartache and set it to a chill and melancholic beat with “get by.” It’s neo-soul flavor takes just a touch of the sting out of mistreatment and feeds into a spirit of wounded resilience that flows through the song. But lines like “Lately all I do is cry, but imma still get by/So clean, still whenever I walk by/You know imma get by” are so poignant it captures such a specific feeling when you feel like you didn’t do anything wrong but got treated like you don’t rate by some trifling fool who you thought might have been different. So you just lean into that feeling, that ache and relive some of those memories and ride that pain until you’re through it and maybe, just maybe, not have to revisit it with the clown of the moment and be stronger for it going into the future and preserve some of your dignity in the process. Listen to “get by” on Spotify and follow Lo Artiz at the links below.

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Lo Artiz’s Ambient Hip-Hop Track “Softly Pt. 1” is a Free Verse Map of Inner Thoughts Going Into Action

Lo Artiz’s “Softly Pt. 1” single sounds like something in a constant state of flux, breaking down, rebuilding, gently. Its lush arrangement of textural percussion and processed tones that sound like they’re lingering and melting off her strong yet whispery vocals. It all sounds like you’re getting to spend some time taking a casual walk through another person’s dreams as the mind processes streams of thought as motes of feeling and ideas swirl around and drift off to take on a life of their own for a bright, flickering moment before resolving into other shapes and notions and emotions. Her words come off like free verse existential poetry assembling thoughts to properly frame and consider while engaging with the will to take action on this constellation of interconnected thought patterns. It’s a gorgeous map of inner space the likes of which one doesn’t often hear. Listen to “Softly Pt. 1” on Spotify and follow Lo Artiz at the links provided.

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Lo Artiz’s Downtempo Electro Soul Single “11:11” is a Musical Salve for the Anxious Mind

Lo Artiz’s arrangements on the “11:11” single uses a subtle, sparkly tonal backdrop that sound like winking starlight as the setting for the song’s deeply contemplative tenor. The song has layers of vocal melody like something one might expect in a electro soul song akin to something you’d hear on an Erykah Badu record. The song is about sorting out the ways a person struggles with the anxieties that haunt them without allowing those disruptive waves of mood to circumscribe one’s entire life. But in those moments when your personal demons hit so deep into your mind that you have a difficult time shaking off their grip sometimes you really need some things to hold on to to pull yourself out of those dark corners of the soul and sometimes it’s the ability to dream of a different time and place for yourself, sometimes little activities and joys that serve as the scaffolding of your psyche so that even if you fall far into personal darkness you can at least have something that stimulates your brain beyond its self-immolating fixations. The recursive pulse of the rhythm with ethereal tones that unravel anxious reactions are like a salve themselves especially with Lo Artiz’s soulful and commanding vocals that serve less as a demand for better for yourself than a hypnotic reminder that the worst moments in your head are not the entirety of who you are and that even without insipid positivity and bravado that you can in face find a way to go on even when you don’t think you can. Listen to “11:11” on Spotify and follow Lo Artiz at the links provided.