Isabelle Gitlin Returns With A Powerful New Song
An incredible new release from Isabelle Gitlin just dropped and it has such a powerful approach with these addicting and lush vocals that hit hard emotionally because the song shines with character and personality which is a staple for Isabelle and her music making it so connective that you can feel this raw sort of energy pulling at you while you listen.
"It Still" is a song that hits a bit of a new level for the artist, and I only say this because I'm very familiar with her music up to now.
This track has a certain kind of robustness that comes from her newly adapted tracking and layering of harmonious and almost gospel style vocals.
The way her backing vocals bend and sway can feel haunting at times, and it's something that helps set the mood and build the intensity for the emotion behind the track itself.
She puts a lot of herself into her music and does so by letting down all of her walls and speaking her mind.
She always releases music that is so incredibly vulnerable that it becomes something relatable to almost anyone who's listening.
This track blends a bunch of great approaches from that classic R&B Style to a more current feeling production, and I love the elements of how she takes her robust and soulful vocals and utilizes those to display all of that emotion while the backing vocals and production take you in these different directions
This song is different because even though those main vocals are so intense and just thick with raw energy, those backing vocals are so engulfing that you almost don't know which to pay attention to.
It's such a cool approach with this beautifully cinematic underbelly, which, again, is also a kind of staple to her music. This, of course, goes back to her including a lot of that emotion and realism in her music.
There are also parts of the song where she uses vocoder to add a different feel, beats come in and pan out, and there's just a lot of attention to detail in terms of how the song was arranged and produced.
We've conducted interviews with Isabelle before, and she told us about some of her top influences. Some of those influences were classic, powerhouse 90s R&B and pop musicians (Whitney Houston, for example).
You can hear those artists in this track. The beautifully tracked and attention-grabbing vocals bursting with that personality and soul and demanding your attention, are something that had a bigger punch with this song.
I feel like it's a song where she comes through more confidently than she ever has, and it's well-deserved because she's an incredible singer and really displays so much heart and honesty in her music.
This is an artist that others should be looking to in terms of writing songs from the truth. Being attentive to the lyrics but also the arrangement of a song, the intensities, and the emotion behind it all.
She can display all of this stuff in such a gorgeous way that you get caught up in it, and her music connects with you at times in such a crazy way.
You may have memories of your own pop into your head while you're hearing this song. This is one of the ways the music connects.
It's plenty to soak in and I love every second of it.
Isabelle Gitlin never ceases to impress me however, this song is a cut above, and I can hear her progression and evolution as a songwriter and a performer loud and clear on this single.
Listen to this song right now, and you will see exactly what I mean. It will have an effect on you.
