Estella Kirk Delivers An Emotionally Charged EP

The latest release from Estella Kirk delivers a soiree of personal and contemporary pop approaches that feel both classic and new school simultaneously, as she manages to bring together all kinds of dynamic elements in the production while still delivering so much powerful character to the point where you can paint pictures in your head as stories unfold.

This is an EP called Growing Pains, and the record spans four tracks, each bringing out another story and another element of her character, but it all feels incredibly authentic.

The record starts with the track called "18", which serves as quite an excellent introduction to the EP as a whole because it delivers some of the record's robust Staples, especially in terms of fresh and unafraid, slightly vulnerable but completely outspoken honesty.

This track serves as an appetizer of sorts. It breaks you into her world, her inner thoughts, her processing, and her approaches very well. You have this almost dream-like and vast undertone combined with lap steel that fills the ether and creates layers of cinematic backbone that have a very particular way of engulfing you.

The following track, "Coffee", is an excellent example of exactly that as well. The way she puts it all together with a wonderful honesty, description, and puts in all that emotion behind how she's feeling is brilliant. The song also blends a pop overcoat with a sort of cinematic undertone, which feels lush and beautiful at the same time.

By the end of the second track, you start to become attached to all of that personality that's delivered, and it is again quite robust. But it's also very relatable.

It's something a lot of people can understand, and even if they don't relate to it directly, they know someone who can.

The way she phrases her lyrics is also something that I grew sort of addicted to. She has a brilliant way of putting together the words so that they fit seamlessly into the beat but also have heart in their delivery.

That is something this record is packed with; Heart.

Again, this comes from all that beautiful honesty and sort of unafraid element to put it all out there for everyone to hear.

"Growing Pains" is the next track, and it is absolutely gorgeous. This is an acoustic sort of singer-songwriter-based track, but you can hear hints of Southern-kissed Americana influence in this one.

It works wonders for the track itself and how she's also able to tell a story with such amazing detail that it all makes perfect sense in the end.

A lot of these tracks are emotionally bound and quite cinematic.

The song that seems to blend a lot of her amazing songwriting elements is the closing track called "Same Jesus, different pew".

This track takes some of those strings and cinematic soundscapes, textures, and tones, brings them into this outstanding storytelling format, and incorporates some bright and colorful pop approaches in the production.

I found this one to be one of the most powerful ones, although I can say the entire thing is quite impactful.

These are connective songs that you end up thinking about long after they've ended.

This is a record that is Estella's story, or at least part of it. She's giving you these unique pieces of her persona through the music.

I am sure one person may interpret things differently than the next, although again, a lot of lyrics are very straightforward and come from a very personal space.

This is something that feels almost like a coming-of-age story, and these four songs are like chapters out of that story.

It is an EP you should listen to all the way through in one shot, which is only around 10 minutes long, so it's worth your time to say the very least of it.

Dive into this record as soon as you can and get a bit of an understanding of Estella Kirk as a human.

This is a great word for it. It's a record that humanizes her, and because we connect with it so much, it humanizes us as well.

We start remembering that we have history, stories to tell, and feelings that we can't escape from.

An EP like this takes a certain level of bravery.

Her vocal performance does nothing less than showcase how she's able to take certain heavy-handed emotions and thoughts and spin them into songs that you hold on to.

This was a beautiful record through and through.

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