New Yorker Kiah Victoria releases her debut EP Everybody on September 23rd. Lifted from the EP, is a fresh, breezy and bold cut ‘Hollow’, pianos chime, bounding baselines, while the percussion winds its way through the cities skyline. Victoria’s impeccable vocals both rich and soulful as they are prescient, paint a call to arms, for humanity to overcome, in the face of a terrible tragedy in France.
“This song was wrote two days after the Paris attack,” explains Kiah Victoria, continuing, “Everything still felt super surreal and hopeless and I wanted to capture that. I also wanted to make something joy giving. The amazing thing is that we don’t have to be as terrible as we’re capable of being.”
Victoria switches effortlessly from powerful spoken word message to uplifting soulful sway that’s redolent of both the colourful expressiveness of a Kelis and the music as a vehicle for emancipation and seizing the moment similar to the work of Lauryn Hill (“Time won’t wait for no man/Don’t get caught in the quicksand). It’s a song that possesses the warmth of ’70s soul and is warmly familiar to the best cuts of early ’90s RnB but with a healthy dose of the now, and rush of the new. If there’s any justice its the kind of song that would be blaring out of radios across the globe.
Listen to more on her SoundCloud page.
