Originally Published – 15/01/2024
After making an epic entrance onto the music scene last year with her debut single James premiering on Wonderland Magazine, Greco-American artist Angelica released her newest single Secret History.
The London-based creator is set to build upon her debut success with this deep dive into Angelica’s consciousness as she takes listeners on an escape into a behind-the-scenes look at love and relationships and explores these little moments that happen behind closed doors when no one is watching.
The song opens with a hint at the dreamy joy of the pairing on the song as it describes the feeling of finding the great wonders in the one person you love. But it then progresses to make it clear that this love seemingly didn’t last and didn’t turn into the hoped-for fairytale after all. The slightly sombre introduction at the start of the story is echoed within the rhythm as the focal sound point of the track opening is the drum beat It is heavy and its hard it’s what your ear is drawn to and it seems to mimic the heavy feeling of this happy dream being gone.
As the sombre open fades, we then follow into the past of this love as Angelica trails into what the love was like before it faded and the ‘secret history’ of this relationship is revealed. With this comes the fading of the heavy drum and the brighter backdrop starting to move to the forefront to accompany Angelica’s vocal.
The gentile rhythm starts to ring clearer and it brings in a starry-eyed step back in time to the happier history of the love that is being reminisced in the track.
As a precursor to the second verse, there’s an instrumental moment that cements the transition into this tale of the shared secret history that listeners are getting to look in on.
There is something uniquely special about this track as the combination of Angelica’s vocals and the dreamy soundscape has audiences in this state of being drawn into the story that is unfolding that many will empathise with as they understand that intimacy of those private moments, but you can’t quite decide whether you’re reading a story being presented to you, or eavesdropping on a vocalised diary as a tale of a relationship once lived is recounted and relived.
With an angelic and ethereal quality to her voice and a remarkable talent for taking the spoken word and turning it into something magically musically and moving, there is no doubt that Angelica is an exciting artist who is one to watch.
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