“I’m like porcelain,” emotes Skott teetering exquisitely at the top of a brittle crystalline upper register, amid a perfectly manicured bed of thumping heart beats, Hammond organ slithers. A deliciously cracked ode about “how you can spend limitless time creating something – trust, for example – but you can also let it fall to the ground in a second.”
This is female pop artist Skott’s outstanding first track, and so far we’ve managed to piece together from scant information that she hails from Scandinavia and as a “young musician grew up in a forest commune, run by a collection of outcast folk musicians.” Which “meant that Skott didn’t actually have an opportunity to listen to contemporary music until she went to the city for the first time in her mid teens, despite growing up surrounded by music in this somewhat unorthodox upbringing.”
All of the above may be a hint at why ‘Porcelain’ sounds so fresh, clearly well-crafted pop yet so unfettered by gimmicks her voice is pure, crisp and emotional inner dialogue is laid bare, skating the line between the epic choruses of Lykki Li, the vocal scope of Soap&Skin and the relationship melodramas of Lana Del Rey. As the track ushers to a crescendo, she reverts to the universal “just a million ways to harm you,” her vocals now double tracked reverb sounding as if shoulders in arms with fellow victims of emotional carelessness.
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