River Iris – Peekaboo (2021)
River Iris is bringing a touch of twilight to a dreamy love story through the tones of her single ‘Peekaboo’. With a splash of neon lights flitting through a retro-futuristic soundscape, she balances tension with lilting softness. The husky musings of the vocals wrap around your brain enhancing the contrast of lyrics and music.
The single continues her interplay of lightness and moodiness which she brought to our ears with her single ‘War’. Wielding her musicality with power, she draws you into her thoughts and musing making you aware while helping you work through issues. With this love song, she inundates you with the balancing of lightness and dark in a relationship.
‘Peekaboo’ draws you in with a combination of Iris’ ethereal vocals and a delicate stop-start melody. The music has a juddering feeling in the opening that moves into a more flowing fusion of dream pop and synth-pop. There are shivering tones that shake through your senses before you are tapped into the beats of the chorus. The melody has a lot of layers working together to form the lights of the soundscape. The higher tones are all neon lights blinking against your eyelids while the lower notes are lurking darkness that comes and goes throughout the single.
While the layers of the melody form a neon landscape, the vocals continue their ethereal journey through a love story. There is a delicacy to the vocals that dance across your ears like fairy lights. The gentle touch of the vocals adds an interesting poignancy to the lyrics that consider the ups and downs of a relationship. Through the lyrics, Iris takes you from blissful happiness to a feeling of loss and a lack of closeness.
River Iris balances the darkness and light of a relationship through the dreamy tones and ethereal vocals of ‘Peekaboo’. Pulling you in with a combination of vocals and music, she has you riding the ups and downs of the lyrics. With a neon soundscape, she touches you with fairy lights and sadness for an expressive listening experience.
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