RVBY MY DEAR, Draw Review

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RVBY MY DEAR, Draw Review

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RVBY MY DEAR is the art-pop project of Gabbi Coenen, a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist originally from Perth, Western Australia, now based in Brooklyn NY. A formally trained pianist from the age of 4, Coenen formed RVBY MY DEAR as an outlet for her songwriting in late 2012, after moving to New York to attend The New School’s jazz voice program.  RVBY MY DEAR released their debut EP, Balloons, in 2014, which featured the singles “Dirt” and the title track. The band followed with the “Flourisher” single in 2015, and “Unravel.” In 2017 another single “10:17.”  RVBY MY DEAR is set to release a full-length LP Waiting in April of 2019.  Until then, listeners can enjoy her first single off the LP “Draw.”

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Positives:

Floating synth chords, interesting guitar parts and flowing melodies, reminiscent of the late 80s nu-wave sound. Laced with British pop flavors with a solid song-form.

Bottom Line:

Ethereal melodies with Coenen’s hauntingly poignant voice floating a top. Heavily influenced by the synth explosion of the late 80s, that spawned the popular nu-wave genre. Coenen explains, “This was the final song written for the album, about 3 weeks before we were set to go into the studio to track the rest of the songs. This was around the end of the summer of 2016, which was obviously a very tumultuous time both politically and socially around the world. That, coupled with a bit of stress-induced sleep paralysis, probably influenced the lyrics of the song most directly. Musically it was written for piano and voice, as all my songs are. I sent a very bare-bones demo to Andrew my producer, and he came back with this intense, ‘trap-adjacent’ drum track that began to lift the song out of its balladic tendencies. Once he added the guitars (by this stage my old guitarist had quit the band, probably adding to the stressful nature of the whole experience), it turned into this film noir/Western/James Bond fusion.” The track features heavy vocal layers which adds to the swirling sensuality of the tune, followed by a large crescendo underneath the final line of the lyrics, with a ominous outro that adds to the final ignition of the tune. That’s the short of it!

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