Edie Yvonne – Girl Code (2023)
While singer-songwriter Edie Yvonne has a sophisticated voice and sound far beyond her years, she is ultimately a teenager – who happened to turn 15 today. Alongside her singing career, Yvonne lives a teenager’s life; she deals with teenage things like school, best friends, unrequited crushes, Instagram, that sort of stuff. Youthful joviality filled with loveliness, or at least that’s what an adult tends to think when opening more bills. Unfortunately, just like watching another season of Married At First Sight, everything is tinged with a shivering of sadness beneath the pleasant exterior. Edie Yvonne uses her intimate storytelling and smooth style to capture and cope with the less happy stuff.
An old soul lurking behind a fresh face, her baby blues and infectious smile hide knowledge we expect from someone more mature. In the critically acclaimed ‘Darkness Bliss’, she displayed the innocence of a broken heart, and in ‘Queen Bee’ she found the theme song to all mean girls. Today, her single ‘Girl Code’ is a step away from the pain and vulnerability to compassion and kindness.
The US-based artist might strongly lean toward pop, but Edie Yvonne has an experimental nature. Following her synth-driven dream pop ‘Queen Bee’, she delved into nostalgic folk rock with ‘Darkness Bliss’; in ‘Girl Code’ she finds the line between folk, rock and pop then blurs it. Her first collaboration with co-writer Maddy Simmen and producer Rio Root, ‘Girl Code’ fuses bold beats with a moving guitar wrapped in a synth-driven swirl of sound.
Soft and soothing, the melody seems to hug you carrying you about in a comfortable fog. Yvonne’s dulcet tones slide along the bubble-gum fun with ease like a hopeful feeling of joy. Yet, just as everything good has the potential for bad, the pulsating guitar acts like a heartbeat dipping into a sheen of raw darkness with a barebones interlude. All melody halts with Yvonne’s warm vocals joining the sharp strings plucked in its quick drawn breath of “what if this doesn’t work”, and then the rhythm flows again answering “Well, yeah, it might not, but then again, it might”.
Warm, rich and oozing sincere honesty, Edie Yvonne anticipates the future with an encouraging hope in ‘Girl Code’.
Find out more about Edie Yvonne on her official website, Instagram and Spotify.
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