"I rarely read a book that I actually finish / I'll make the ending up in my head / But when I pick it back up a year or so later / What I wrote isn't what it actually said..."
Eschewing the hushed tones of bedroom pop or the mysterious melodramatics of pop noir, Baltimore's singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Odelia offers up straight up indie rock punches on "Don't Spill Your Guts Out". Armed with busker punk passion and an empowered passionate vocal wail, Odelia's lyrical swings, guitar distortions and self aware attitude doesn't mind stepping on toes or leaning in to say what she wants to say. The effect is bold, sparse but in your face heavy. I am loving the mix here, the upfront brassy vocals with her guitar sound, sinewy and fully fleshed out and the bass sort of blended as a part of the shuffling drum patterns, leaving her voice as one fist and the guitar mainly as the other.
As Odelia's bloodletting tumbles out she cuts with sharp knives:
"I think the author messed up and
I think I need a check up
My glasses seem unnecessary
But I like the way they look
They take away the shock of seeing you
Cuz you're fuckin ugly"
I think I need a check up
My glasses seem unnecessary
But I like the way they look
They take away the shock of seeing you
Cuz you're fuckin ugly"
With deeper cuts on the chorus (in varying ways):
"Don't spill your guts out
You're ugly enough
On the outside
Don't spill your guts out
Because it's your fault
And it's not your turn to cry"
You're ugly enough
On the outside
Don't spill your guts out
Because it's your fault
And it's not your turn to cry"
Odelia's style here, in songwriting terms is not all heavy punches (though it mostly is) as she displays softer vocalizations as the song pushes into brief moments of gentle declarations. Here her voice portends more emo bits and pieces and suggestions of melancholia or hints of what else might grace her debut album scheduled to drop in June of this year (2024). Oh, did I mention that she is graduating high school this year? Yeah, pretty amazing.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/smallenginetechnician
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsS_4H0ZHch9t6s6qziJoHA
Odelia is a singer-songwriter, artist, musician from Baltimore, Maryland with her debut album set to release in June, 2024.
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