Lilia Asha might only be 13, but her latest release, โGhost House,โ written on the day of her grandfatherโs funeral, eulogizes the memory, loss, and the way childhood magic fades when someone who held it together is gone. Produced and arranged with her mentor Vitalii Kuzovkov in Shanghaiโs Starcle studio, the single follows her debut with an ethereal alt-pop and the haunting intimacy of a bedroom confessional. Asha cites Billie Eilish as a key influence, and you can hear that in the hushed delivery and smoky grain of her mezzo vocals.
The track opens with a spectral wash of ambience, before her voice slides in completely raw and unfiltered in her voice. The beats come tumbling, haunting, and rapping hard as the glitzy, sharp textures biteingly crunch and slice through like shards of memory.
Lyrically, โGhost Houseโ leans on the spaces where absence is loudest. She sings, โThe kitchen that we danced in, itโs empty and itโs cold,โ recreating the imagery in sound and silence, making the listener feel the chill of a once-familiar home turned hollow. Her repeated refrain, โthis used to be a place where I could be a magician, a singer, a Quidditch winner,โ takes the innocence of childhood fantasies, now reframed as relics. Her imagery of crowns made from glitter boxes and sticker stars becomes devastating when contrasted with her final admission, โNow my home will forever feel like a ghost house.โ
As harmonies rise behind her, as her voice soars with angst, agony, and devastation, the soulfulness magnifies her grief, carrying it from whisper to wail.
The release also features an instrumental version, which amplifies the haunting atmosphere by letting the piano take on a lullaby-like innocence before dark, rumbling beats creep in. With vocals set further back in reverb, the instrumental wanders through memory itself, distant, fading, but still alive.
Check the single out on Spotify to feel your heart light up with a memory you have coveted for long.
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Review by: Naomi Joan