Kyla La Grange released her criminally underrated second studio album “Cut Your Teeth” last year. It’s tropical inspired, 80s layered synth pop sounds were the strongest on singles such as “The Knife” but seeped through into spectacular deep cuts like “Cannibals” and “White Doves”.
Now Kyla is back and returns with the slick bubblegum pop of new track “So Sweet” and it sounds so sweet. With her distinctive breathy vocals the new song isn’t far removed from the sonic landscape of “Cut Your Teeth”, but it’s certainly an all together bigger sound. With an “arpeggiated tuba” like sound and drum machines taking the lead in the verses the track builds to an impressive pre-chorus which sees Kyla up the tempo before we drift into the more sweeping chorus.
We get to the height of dream pop dreamy when we reach the track’s bridge around a minute from the end of the track, as Kyla La Grange asks for forgiveness for taking so long to realise she’s in love. Kyla says of the track that it’s the first love song which she has written which is doesn’t contain the melancholy or sadness a lot of her previous “love” songs have incorporated.
The last hurrah as it goes sees the chorus embelished with additional backing vocals until the tracks ends with an acapella line because “it tastes so sweet”.
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