Posted by Just as spring blooms and a dusky haze begins to blanket the longer days, Bristol-based artist HANAH soundtracks the seasonal shift with her debut EP, ‘Watch The World In Detail’, a fervid mix of heady folktronica.
The four-track EP is lucid and heavy-lidded throughout and entirely self-produced. Opener ‘Lovebook’, with its rustic, compressed arpeggios, plays out a tale of yearning; a sensual, sensory number and a rare instance where the looped production never devolves into tedium. The petrichor-scented ‘Luxton’ is a highlight, the sparse opening slow-building into gossamer synth ambience.
Bar the title track, HANAH’s lyrical imprint is minimal and periodic. On EP closer ‘Maid Of Smoke’, within the crevices of silence and minor keys, HANAH unravels, narrating a parable of desire and emancipation; the clarity in vocal conveying an acute understanding of intention, placement and resonance.
Released on Saffron Records, the young producer has been afforded the tools and the space to fashion a self-assured debut project, suspending the listener with gravity-defying songs. Evocative but full of warmth and intimacy, HANAH evokes the frictional sound design of Mica Levi and early James Blake. Indeed, the EP’s title typifies its core; the ‘details’ are what makes this project a triumph.
7/10
Words: Shahzaib Hussain
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