"youooououuu / do you revel in / your disobedience / my teeth were / smooth / digging them under your skin / your flowers bloom / from the blood I drew / and we knew that / spring was looming / and soon you'd see / the budding willow tree / which would lead you / back to the / land of the living..."
Stepping into the psychoactive multi-prismed folk abstractions of "Let Me In" (Official Video) by London based, New York born singer-songwriter, musician Esme White and you might find your head spinning so uncontrollably that you will not be able to digest this artful creation all at once. There are just too many layers to this track and to Esme's vocal countenance, artistic persona and beyond to absorb or even begin to understand even a little bit. Distilling her voice and the manner in which she displays it would take me days. Her unbridled spirit and free wheeling style that feels unabashedly ID and thus unpredictable would be, for me, in a LIVE setting intimidating. True art has to do with truth (that is probably why I was so bad at it) and I get the sense here that Esme's art it an open book, open heart through and through.
This song, performance, everything has so many shades. Comprised of blues soaked folk, so called psychobilly, dashes of bluegrass, country, bohemian folk classicalism, porch blues, rockabilly, jazz, post punk to varying degrees and iterations, there is so much going on. This song in particular makes me think of early 70's and the last gasps of hippie culture and it's eventual metamorphosis into slivers of what would become proto punk and other things. In terms of Esme's kind of divergence and subversions, at least on this track, attitudinally I thought of the dark, social commentary, alt punk and absurdist stations of Violent Femmes and Siouxsie and the Banshees colliding and within certain stylistic elements I thought of Melanie Anne Safka Schekeryk too (Melanie - Brand New Key).
"Let Me In" is from Esme's latest EP "Dead End Daydreams".
Esme shares:
Esme shares:
"This is a song from my debut EP which came out today. It was recorded at Spiritual Records Studios in Camden with Jack Trouble. The song is written from the point of view of a hell hound (Cerberus), trying to get into Persephone's "garden" ( if you know what I mean). The dogs barking at the end are samples of dogs howling and humans howling, it's quite fun trying to distinguish them. I think it's good to be a bit feral sometimes, or most of the time actually. I am also going to be releasing a kooky video for it next week!"
This crazily talented artist is one of a kind.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://www.instagram.com/esmewhite_/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNS8B-xnVM&t=7s
Esme White is a London based, New York born singer-songwriter with a love of storytelling and poetry. She began writing a collection mid lockdown as a way to inject poems with a vibrancy and pulse they were lacking, and has been writing and performing ever since. Drawing on influences from country, folk and punk, her songs combine various characters she has encountered in everyday life, family history, pubs, and various mythologies.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/esmewhite_/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNS8B-xnVM&t=7s
Esme White is a London based, New York born singer-songwriter with a love of storytelling and poetry. She began writing a collection mid lockdown as a way to inject poems with a vibrancy and pulse they were lacking, and has been writing and performing ever since. Drawing on influences from country, folk and punk, her songs combine various characters she has encountered in everyday life, family history, pubs, and various mythologies.
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