A New Single from Olivia Dolphin
A brand new single release from Olivia Dolphin displays several songwriting approaches, all done with this sort of character that you end up attaching yourself to very quickly and the fun of it is that the more you listen to the song the more intense it grows and the more that character personality grows with it.
"Not Perfect" is an absolute powerhouse all in all but the way that it starts feels almost theatrical with a piano and vocals which eventually grows into a more aggressive and almost rock undertone but the whole thing has a beautiful and almost graceful sort of atmosphere and it's underbelly that really wraps itself around you and keeps you right where it wants to.
Now, the thing that makes this track graceful is the way that it's performed and orchestrated because the arrangement is brilliantly done and the backbone of it feels cinematic a lot of the time as well but the main aspect of it is that you know it came from someplace real and is emotionally driven which takes the song to a kind of a different level altogether.
This track builds and calms down at different times to see you have these swells of intensity that let the song feel like it's alive and breathing and by the time it's over you have to sort of react to meet yourself back to reality again because it manages to pull you away from your surroundings.
It's been quite some time since I heard a song that was able to do that but Olivia pulls this off without a hitch and she does it with her own personal charm as well.
People are going to take the more aggressive tonalities of the song and the premise of it and relate it to some of the classic rockers that are female-fronted and stand tall like Alanis Morissette and artists like that which of course, it does stand right up with those kinds of songs however, I'm going to say this feels a lot more like Radiohead for example.
The reason I say this is because this is very experimental and expansive. This track has this huge vastness in its undertone and again it feels incredibly theatrical along with her vocal performance going from an almost operatic feel to that aggressive attitude-riddled approach at the drop of a dime and that's something that really helps push the envelope for this entire track.
Distract definitely has layers that you can peel back as you listen to and when you do you can feel a lot of this in your bones.
The whole track was well woven together and the mix of it is beautiful because there's this perfect amount of wetness throughout the track in different areas that lets it just flow.
For example, you have reverb on those pianos and that gives them a little bit of a distance and makes the whole song feel bigger, almost like you're watching it being performed live on a stage somewhere.
All of these kinds of attributes really help the drive of the song get immense.
This was a gorgeous track and I feel like it's something that speaks volumes for Olivia Dolphin as an artist and as a person being able to put songs out there with fewer boundaries than the norm and also give pieces of herself as she does it.
This was an awesome single and I'm definitely going to be keeping an eye out for Olivia from here on out.
