Today see’s the release of San Franciscan songwriter Shana Falana’s second album, Here Comes The Wave. The album is a series of dark pop anthems, many of which were written during a burst of productivity the best part of a decade ago that accompanied her recovery from what Shana describes as, “drug-related financial ruin.”
Ahead of the release this week, Shana has shared the album’s sublime highlight, Cool Kids. A burst of daylight in an album of gritty darkness, Cool Kids is a message to her younger self, and young people everywhere, to embrace who they are and be themselves in the face of peer pressure and self-doubt. Musically it’s huge, a wall of pounding drums, multi-layered vocals and driving, bassy rumble. A euphoric reminder that being anyone else’s idea of cool isn’t being yourself, as Shana puts it, “the cool kids are the ones you forgot.”
Here Comes The Wave is out today via Team Love Records.
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