Fia Nyxx ft Taylor Xo – Gemini (2021)
Fia Nyxx has been making a name for herself through the elegantly crafted storytelling of her music and the intoxicating silkiness of her vocals. With her latest release ‘Gemini’, she is teaming up with Billboard charting artist Taylor Xo to merge sultry with haunting and temper this with angsty synths. Using a layered approach, the pair twist a two-sided tale into an infectious and captivating single that you do not want to miss.
While neither artist is a newcomer to the music scene, they are able to bring something unique and exciting to listeners. Drawing on their experience within the music world, they masterfully blend sounds, create tension and get you hopelessly hooked to their sound. Since her first EP Everything Girl, Nyxx has toured the United States and Asia while being featured in major publications including Billboard Magazine and Buzz Music.
‘Gemini’ opens with a pulsing neon feeling that pulls you into a twilight space. These pulses are joined by clicking tone and an intricate layering of melodic elements. It is a rich and decadent soundscape that has you swaying to the rhythm. The bass vibrates from the depths to twine with the synths that shiver across your senses. Mixing with that bass is something angsty and dark that threatens to rise from the depths and overtake the lighter tones. Through all of this, you are filled with a slightly ominous feeling that rests on your shoulders and raises the hairs on the back of your neck.
As the melody fills you with ominous feelings and gets you lost in the soundscape, Nyxx’s vocals silkily slink into your ears. She crooks a finger at you and beckons you closer as her voice rises and falls in a truly addictive manner. The smooth seduction of her performance is an amazing contrast to the tension built into the melody but there is something resting in her performance that adds to the edge created by the music. Xo’s rap vocals come in late to hit out at someone who has been pulling you down in a relationship. Through his brief performance, you are confronted with the dual personality of Gemini and the effect this has on others.
Fia Nyxx and Taylor Xo fill your senses with building tension, split personalities, tension and seduction in the unforgettable ‘Gemini’. Through the melody, the pair build an ominous tension that writhes with an undertone of darkness. Nyxx’s vocals pull you in with a silky seduction before Xo pushes back against the pressures of the relationship detailed in the lyrics.
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