Album Review: Alina Baraz Declares It Was Divine
Similar to Kali Uchis or Sabrina Claudio, Alina Baraz has risen, in fame, as an underground artist that feels iconically mainstream. She fills out venues, drops tracks to be devoured by streams, and is lauded for her beauty and succulent voice, but yet she feels like a hidden, cultish figure; with fans adoring her like she is strictly their jewel to shine. In some ways, I understand why! We love to know we were the “Day Ones” to a really good artist, and her debut, It Was Divine, will have those “ones” beaming with pride and jealous of the rising tide of new fans garnered.
Alina Baraz – Be Good (lyric video)
Blessed with a voice that fogs over you like the pink, poppyseed haze that draped over Dorothy in OZ, Baraz comes off like the Queen of Dream R&B. She elevates the new genre to a new dimension that is adorned with synth-crowns and reverb-clouds. Like Claudio and Uchis, she hand an inherent capacity to make wonder feel sexy. She lulls and hushes her voice through songs such as, “Endlessly” and “Say You Know.” Her voice feels comfortably visual; uttering every verse as if it came with its own color palettes. Naturally, it is hypnotizing and further Alina Baraz as songstress for lustful nostalgia.
Alina Baraz – My Whole Life (lyric video)
When we think of nostalgia, it is a sense of sad, beautiful “missing.” Sometimes, it is to yearn for the past or something you never had. Baraz taps into that feeling with a level of seduction and lustfulness; draping rhythms as if they were velvet emotions that you use to cover your home’s windows and keep your heart hidden from the night. YOU SEE! It Was Divine is making me poetical, which is why I COMMAND you to give it a listen. Click Here For More Information.
