Diandra Reviews It All

Just recently, I was talking to a fellow writer about a major problem for every artist that, at times, they may not realize is an issue. In a world that hails you for being good, it never asks you to be new. There are so many phenomenal musicians, but I cannot say there are many fresh or “unique” ones, which I have made Diandra Reviews It All have an objective to find. Smoke Season is new, and their Baby’s All Right show proved it.
Smoke Season – Good Days

The 80’s are back in the new modernized, “synthier” version of pop, but when you are bring something back, you have to, at least, bring it with a revamped style and purpose. Smoke Season go full- on electro, and present their songs like they are in a neon-boxing match with love. It all falls on the chemistry between Gabrielle Wortman and Jason Rosen. Each approaches each other as if music had turned them, spiritually, into siamese twins. They get so close that they become one with their music, flirt with each other in sonic rapture, and, through time, draw the crowd into what feels a music love-fest. To bring the audience into their sonic bond, Gabrielle emotes her songs as if she is on the verge of a breakdown. She is shattering through notes and vibrations in tracks like, “Hello”, “Good Days”, and “Emilia”, as if to sing them she has to exorcise them. She contorts and even throws her body on the floor like every lyric is a floating in orb before her that she both dances and fights with in sheer love and frustration. Wortman is in every sense of the word a star, and reminds me so much of Alison Mosshart from the legendary The Kills. Like this seasoned vet of feminine strength and human badassery, Wortman uses her body and her vocal notes like tiny weapons; she is ready to cut a key and swing a hand to make a crowd feel her swag. Yes, THIS WOMAN HAS SWAG! And Baby’s All Right COULD NOT HANDLE IT! This locale can feel like a tight, underground square upon entrance, and Wortman turned it into Smoke Season’s version of Narnia; to enter you needed a lion voice, a fierce witch attitude, and a YAS KWEEN! wardrobe. (Like How I Combined C.S. Lewis with Broad City!).
Smoke Season – Loose (Official Music Video)

At a Smoke Season concert you truly feel like you need a “zappy” mind and persona to clutch upon the ferocity of their music, especially because they have clutched unto it themselves. For this, Smoke Season is 100% going to rise. They already own their image, sound, and performance style as if they are headlining MSG, which makes me believe they will. It is in this confidence that they find the key ingredient to “freshness”. Yes, their sound matches the burgeoning wave of electro-pop taking over music, but their personas help them surf the wave rather than become another ripple apart of it. For More Information On Smoke Season Click Here.

Smoke Season – Emilia (Official Music Video)