New artist of the day : Final Apollo
With songs stuffed with a darkish forest/darkish people grandeur, Final Apollo is a startling newcomer. Her new tune, ‘Dandelion’, claims to be ‘Dreamy, Fierce, Tender, Haunting…’
It’s all of those however extra.
It sounds intimate and but passionate. It’s poetic, eloquent and stuffed with emotional intelligence and paints enthralling photos with its stark and beautiful melodic adventures.
There are nods to Lankum’s combination of the climate crushed previous reframed because the now and likewise the poetic genius of PJ Harvey or Nick Cave & The Dangerous Seeds in addition to related operators like Anohni, Fiona Apple, Lisa O Neill, Adrianne Lenker, Massive Thief, Kate Bush, Black Nation New Street however Final Apollo may be very a lot in her personal house.
Irish-born, London-based artist and composer Final Apollo (a.okay.a Lucy Rice) has refined a sound so arresting that her reside reveals have gained a fame and dependable following throughout Eire and the UK. Unconcerned by the boundaries of style and type, Final Apollo borrows from the worlds of rock, people and pop music (in addition to a myriad of sub-genres) to stitch collectively sonic tapestries exploring the uncooked, equally borderless complexities of the human situation. Final Apollo’s songs are as intricately crafted lyrically as they’re musically – every phrase is deliberate, weighted and merely amplified by her emotionally-charged vocal supply. In “Dandelion,” dreamlike photographs shift and alternate, morphing into one another and again into the mattress of the tune whereas Final Apollo’s ever-present voice shudders underfoot. Her voice acts because the fixed centre, holding the listener from being swallowed completely by this forceful composition. The poignant and borderline hypnotic “Dandelion” is the primary studio providing from the artist since 2022, when her debut EP instantly recognized her nationally as “One to Watch” by critics and tastemakers corresponding to The Irish Occasions, Hotpress and Nialler 9.