With a tint of wistfulness in millennium pink blush marred over a strawberry-sweet high voice, you will receive poetry in Sophia Petro’s new EP, The 11th Hour.
The EP deals with the ordinary experiences that make up the coming-of-age genre and Sophia’s personal take on them. With 5 songs, The 11th Hour forages through lush elegies of simple anecdotal experiences, curating her moods and emotions and clipping them over each description like a scrapbook collage of memories, memoirs, and souvenirs. And over each melody, memory, and reference to her self-discovery are pasted themes of her love life, as though it pervaded, replenished, and consumed all other aspects of her life.
The Melbourne Artist illustrates her romanticism with her cover art, fulfilling the package from the visuals to the music, all coherently, synchronously, and neatly folded together. Proceeding to how Sophia complements it in her aural aura, an example is how she crafts a hopeless romantic dreaminess with a classic piano tune opening in her intro track, “Memory of You.” However, it casually pops a clashing drum pattern in the rest of it.
Throughout the music in her EP, Sophia mixes bits and pieces of dream-pop with the guitar tunes to bring the pop tinge out with folk charm. And what almost always stays consistent is her timbre. She seamlessly controls it and makes the diaristic performance entertaining and interesting with a smoothly transitioning vocal range.
Having dropped only this 11th August, with an all-female production, Sophia Petro’s The 11th Hour is for those who appreciate and enjoy the labyrinthine lyricism in the likes of the worldwide sensation Taylor Swift.
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Review By: Naomi Joan