The Full Album From Stevie Violet Has Arrived
- BuzzSlayers
- 4 hours ago
- 4 min read
The full-length album from Stevie Violet is finally here, and the record certainly showcases a lot of the honesty we already know so well coming from the artist.
The Chrysalis album comes through with a mixture of warm and crisp tones, indie rock, elements of contemporary pop, and a sort of unique texture to all the songs that keeps things very consistent.
The album kicks things off with a song called "Try Me On For Size", which tells right into some of those truths as she spills out a lot in terms of giving pieces of herself for everyone to hear.
This is one of my favorite aspects about the artist in general. She is pretty unafraid to be a little bit vulnerable, but without going over the top. Listening to songs like this one feels like you're sitting with someone and having them tell you about themselves.
It also displays how wonderful a Storyteller she can be as she paints amazing pictures of songs unfolding so that you can really follow along.
The guitar work has this sort of twang to it, and that stays throughout the record a lot of the time, and her vocals are sort of smooth and alluring.
The tone of her vocals complements the guitar amazingly, but I think it's that personality or character that you end up really latching on to for the most part.
Those guitars have a wonderful way of ringing out, and they give you that same twang that you'd hear in an old western. I really love that approach because it works so well for the way that she tells those stories.
Although this song has a more delicate or subtle approach, you are getting some of the amazing staples that the rest of the record will boast.
Having said that, this is an absolutely record you listen to all the way through, and one shot.
The songs are almost like chapters in a book. It's not necessarily a concept album, but they feel like diary entries, in a sense.
You wouldn't skip chapters in a book, so I certainly wouldn't skip chapters on this record either.
Those stories are told from a very personal perspective, and that makes a lot of them super relatable.
"The Fool" follows suit with that personal attribute but takes a bit of a different direction musically, which is really fun. This one has a bit more of a pop-rock style to it, although the guitars are still clean and crisp; you have these synthesizers that have a thickness to the song, and it builds layers and depth.
I love the effects on the guitars and how silky her vocals feel with them. The guitars have this watery chorus effect on them, which reminds me of classic post-punk style guitars, and her vocals feel perfect with that aesthetic.
Now, I've been looking enough to hear a few of these singles before the album, but now that I can hear the whole record I'm hearing a lot of different sides to how she actually performs and writes her songs.
One of my favorites on the record has to be "Wiseguy", as it gives off an almost live performance feel.
It definitely has a bit of an Americana undertone to it. It's got this Southern swing kind of rhythm and style to it, and it's really catchy.
This is one of the songs where you start realizing that the drums and percussion are really key elements to how the song actually comes through. The drumming on this track, in particular, is amazing. It really gives a little bit of drive to the song, but keeps that rhythm in place so that the song pushes forward.
It also helps the song deliver a particular kind of energy.
Stevie lays out this almost cinematically driving set of melodies, and the whole thing has a little bit of an ambient undertone to it.
"Lullaby" also displays how the percussion plays a lead role in the aesthetic of the music itself.
The record closes with an amazing track called "Did You Hear My Song?", which, to me, feels like an almost 90s garage Rock style track. It's not overly distorted or fuzzed, but it is a little bit heavier than a lot of the rest of the songs on the record.
While still delivering tons of personality in the form of super honest lyrics, there's a hint of aggression in this one. She also goes into double tracking our vocals, which does happen a few other times on the record, but not super often.
When she double-tracks those vocals, it adds a little bit of extra vigor and excitement to the music, and this song displays it all perfectly.
I said it before, and I'll say it again: this is a record you should listen to from start to finish in one sitting.
It is about 30 minutes in length and consists of 10 songs, and each of them really gives you a lot to chew on.
Take a deep dive into this album as soon as you can and remember where you heard it first.