Kasha Lee – I’ll Be Free (2021)
Using a delightful subtlety, Kasha Lee builds a warm tension through her music. With her single ‘I’ll Be Free’, she uses this subtlety to explore the addiction found among young teens in the underground music scene. Through the single, she searches for fulfilment and the excitement of a sober addiction. With an eery yet hopeful plea, she looks to emerge from the darkness of addiction to the light of emotional freedom.
Steeped in the LA music scene of the 2010s, she fuses alt-pop with lo-fi tones for an experimental flair of sound. While producing her music herself, she showcases a maturity that is far beyond her 19 years. Shedding light on the darkness that many people find themselves in, she offers a helping hand to move forward to something brighter.
‘I’ll Be Free’ vibrates into your ears with a deep tone that has a lot of darkness to it. The shimmering tones that warble over this darkness twist around you like tendrils of smoke. The tapping beats that enter beckon you further into the brooding melody. The darkness of the music starts to lighten as the single progresses, but there is a feeling that you could be pulled back down at any moment. The different instruments and tones that come and go through the melody are a wonderful sonic representation of the steps forward and back that come with emerging from an addiction.
From the start of the single, Lee’s vocals pull you into the eery twilight that many people find themselves lost in. The lyrics carry an understanding of what is happening which wraps around a plea to move on to something better. This plea shivers its way into your chest where it sends goosebumps through you. Lee has this amazing ability to fill her vocal performance with a hopeful plea and the idea that the future can be brighter while tempering it with an overwhelmed feeling.
Kasha Lee has you walking with her through the eery twilight of addiction before a hopeful plea fills your chest in ‘I’ll Be Free’. The darkness of the melody is all smoky tendrils trying to pull you further down. This is countered by her vocals that are full of understanding and the plea for something brighter.
