"I think you're all up in my head / And I / Made you up inside my mind / Yet I can't help myself from trying / To make you real life..."
The dense synth saturations and powerful vocal presence of "all up in my head" by singer-songwriter / musician Sara Diana is darkly dreamy and dreamily potent in it's stark minimalism. I love the less is more aesthetic here. While sheer rays of synth drones shine through, Diana's vocal prowess (at only 18 years old) is artful and self aware. Lyrically she keeps things moving, the patter displaying rushes and sustains with just a faint hint of a certain Dido reflections. The slow burn cadence on a slight machine beat and Diana's ethereal backing track wail created beautiful tensions. Do I wish that around 2 minutes a powerful trip hop human drum beat (ala Josh Dun) stomps in, yes, but my only critique or suggestion (wink).
"They say it's human nature
What we're supposed to doBut I can't help it, baby
When I'm getting close to you"
"You got that special something
The one that makes me crazy
Feels so divine, in the moonshine
Everything turns so hazy"
Sara Diana will certainly have a bright future. Vocally I am thinking of a cross generational amalgam of Tove Lo, Sasha Alex Sloan, Lady Gaga and Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano (yes, Sara Diana, you should consider a reinterpretation of "Tomorrow, Wendy").
-Robb Donker Curtius
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hi :) i’m sara. i’m 18 years old and i love pouring out all my feelings into crazy little pieces of art for people to enjoy. stream my music for a cookie :) pocket poetry is out now 🖤 [ currently cooking…. ]
Sara Diana, alt pop, indie rock, bedroom pop, pop noir, singer songwriter / musician, powerful vocal presence, ethereal, dreamy, baroque pop, dream pop, dark noir, "all up in my head",
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