Album Review: Delacey Makes You Drink Black Coffee
When you have, literally, written a hit for Halsey, “Without You,” you seem bound to become a pop-queen. After all, if you can make a hit for others, why can’t you make it for yourself? This is the question for Delacey in her debut Black Coffee, which comes out March 27. The answer is “Yes! She Can!” Much like black coffee, itself, she can serves piping hot feelings and arrangements that can awaken and start anyone on their day.
Delacey – “My Man” (Official Music Video)
From “Damn” to “Actress,” there is a 90’s style and flare to Delacey’s soundscape that reminds me of early work of Sheryl Crow, Hole, or Garbage, but modernized and laced with the dreaminess of a Lana Del Rey panache. She carries that vocal drawl that feels like she is rolling through notes as she skids through feelings, which is so PERFECT when you are singing to the disillusionments of love. She drives a retro car of rhythms down roads of boredom, sadness, hope, and euphoria. From “My Man” to “Too Poor To Live In LA,” the album is cool and slick like a Kerouac novel, but its characters are even more elevated to live in the clouds.
Delacey totally taps into a feeling that many young people have and will feel in the next few months: cut off. It is not just that dreams don’t come true; its that reality shows you they never can go right or be as perfect as they were in your head. From lovers to perceived destinies, lyrically, Black Coffee approaches that inner “more” we want from our life, and that emotional wall we hit when we feel we can’t adjust ourselves or lower our standards anymore. How many times can you dilute a dream until it stops flowing anymore? This is a question that, in many ways, Delacey asks with a voice that is succulent and sultry, despite living between dazzles and delusions.
Delacey – “Cruel Intentions (feat. G-Eazy)” [Visualizer]
Sure, a good cup of Black Coffee can wake you up, but who doesn’t want sugar, honey, milk, or creamer? Hence, Black Coffee feels like a befitting title, thematically, for this record. It is a socially hazed dive into a young woman’s sincere questioning over why she can’t have MORE! For More Information On Delacey And To Buy Black Coffee On March 27 Click Here.
