God’s Keeper by Layla Kaylif floats into your ears like a whispered secret and stays there like a prayer you’re still trying to understand. It kicks off with an exotic shimmer. Middle Eastern strings curling around a pulsing beat that hits like footsteps in a sacred space. Then Layla’s voice enters, high, honeyed, and sensual, each lyric delivered like a confession half meant for God, half meant for someone she can’t let go of. Every line in “God’s Keeper” lingers, “Angels in black veils, Devils in white capes.” it’s poetry dressed as pop, and it’s addictive.
Produced by Johan Bejerholm (yeah, the guy behind Icona Pop and Måns Zelmerlöw), the track slides between ethereal and grounded, and that tension is magic. The retro-soul edge underneath the cinematic gloss gets you feeling the ghosts of early 2000s Scandi-pop swirling in the mix, only now filtered through something darker, more spiritual, more grown.
Layla is questioning, wrestling, maybe even exorcising. “This song came from a place of spiritual conflict,” she’s said, and you hear it. You hear the ache of trying to save someone divine and the realization that maybe it’s you who needs saving. It’s romantic and philosophical all at once, which isn’t a surprise if you know her history as the “Pop Poet” since Shakespeare in Love hit the charts back in the day.
God’s Keeper is for late-night drives, heavy thoughts, and slow dancing with your eyes closed. Check it out on Spotify.
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Photo credits: Sonya Jasinski
Review by: Naomi Joan