First Robin poured existential poetry into neo-classical melancholy with her debut single ‘Spider Veins’

For her debut single, Spider Veins, First Robin fused Nils Frahm-esque piano-driven neo-classical quiescence with the kind of raw confessional poetry that leaves you under no illusion of her candour. The way she finds lyrical parallels in the most unlikely places hits with surgical precision, conflating how the aesthetics of ageing eat away at us to the same degree as the sense that the world isn’t safe anymore. It’s lines such as “still awake, tempting fate, but every page is another oxymoron, so I get angry on the internet at what the worst person I never met had to say” that stop you cold. It’s brutal in its exposition of how raw we’ve all become, how we mourn the youth we think we should have had but were too busy watching atrocities unfold through pixels. Even if you spent a lifetime with the average person, it would be a stretch to hear such a clear narrative of their headspace, but First Robin arrives in her debut release digging into the darkest corners of her soul, making melodies out of the most nefarious echoes so others can find resonance in her sound. Her expression is pure empathy made art, a poetic […] The post First Robin poured existential poetry into neo-classical melancholy with her debut single ‘Spider Veins’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

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For her debut single, Spider Veins, First Robin fused Nils Frahm-esque piano-driven neo-classical quiescence with the kind of raw confessional poetry that leaves you under no illusion of her candour. The way she finds lyrical parallels in the most unlikely places hits with surgical precision, conflating how the aesthetics of ageing eat away at us to the same degree as the sense that the world isn’t safe anymore. It’s lines such as “still awake, tempting fate, but every page is another oxymoron, so I get angry on the internet at what the worst person I never met had to say” that stop you cold. It’s brutal in its exposition of how raw we’ve all become, how we mourn the youth we think we should have had but were too busy watching atrocities unfold through pixels. Even if you spent a lifetime with the average person, it would be a stretch to hear such a clear narrative of their headspace, but First Robin arrives in her debut release digging into the darkest corners of her soul, making melodies out of the most nefarious echoes so others can find resonance in her sound. Her expression is pure empathy made art, a poetic […]

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