On her debut solo EP, Denae, a nimble lyricist and vocalist who’s worked across the Gioto and Shui & Denae projects, drills down into the hallmarks of her sound that set her apart as a singular creative. Informed by Denae’s dance inclinations, her My Dark Place EP pins mid-tempo beats at the project’s center, throaty toplines suspended atop them. Through sometimes sung, sometimes agilely rapped verses, Denae pointedly tackles the topics of mental health and dysfunction in an ear-catching, thought provoking manner that epitomizes her catalog’s larger focus on life’s ups and downs.
The barefaced collection of thoughts engages a myriad of different sounds in eclectic, creative fashion; for exemplification, juxtapose the EP’s finale, “All Noise” with “Cold Blood,” for instance. A tightly stitched record of Denae’s singing and songwriting fluencies, the My Dark Place EP is out now via Denae Records.
