With her second EP Show & Tell, LA-based artist and producer sydneyunicorns (aka Sydney Angel) offers a mesmerizing plunge into the electric pulse of what it means to feel different, wounded, and wildly alive. Released on May 16, Show & Tell is an avant-pop confessional laced with rebellion, glitter, and a touch of chaosโthe beautiful kind. Written during a period of deep self-discovery after a late ADHD diagnosis, the EP transforms a story. It alchemizes pain and difference into luminous, layered sonic worlds that feel like a diary read under strobe lights.
The opener, โSiren Call,โ immediately sets the cinematic, ethereal, and defiant tone. Echoing the haunted glamor of โ80s goth pop, it swells from airy vocal coos to thunderous synths and rumbling drums. Sydneyโs voice is commanding, dusky, and aching with purpose. Itโs a call back to a self that was once magical before the world told her otherwise.
โBetrayal,โ the April single, slides in with distorted vocal samples, dreamy synth glimmers, and a brooding electronic undercurrent. Sydney sings the verses with a quiet weariness, but her voice lifts in the chorus, with rich, frustrated, and painfully catchy tone. Thereโs that irresistable Taylor Swift in the pop sensibility too, so this is going to be magnetic.
Later, โVictim/Saintโ reveals the inner tug-of-war between pain and power. With ghostly strings and a slow-building tension, the track erupts into a shadowy, theatrical climax. She asks, โAm I a victim or a saint?โ and her voice carries the weight of someone whoโs no longer afraid to be both.
Show & Tell is a shimmering manifesto for the neurodivergent, the misunderstood, the ones who felt too much and spoke too loudly. In Sydneyโs world, being different is a force. Listen to it on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan