With Push & Pull, Nashville-born, Liverpool-based artist Janessa takes the conflicting emotional trajectories of affection and constructs a funk-wrapped, soul-drenched sonic sugar for the capsule of being torn between distance and closeness inside a dynamic you understand is ebbing away on the color of your world.
Written within the rapid aftermath of a breakup and conceived in a single cathartic sitting with producer Jacob Weinreich and guitarist Josh Phillips, Push & Pull captures the uncooked readability that floods in when the emotional fog lastly lifts. With Janessa’s timelessly sanctifying harmonies easing you into her lyrical reckoning, the observe swells with a cinematic heat, but it by no means sacrifices the jagged fact of the expertise.
Because the moody textures thicken round her intimate vocal efficiency, the kaleidoscope of tones brings reduction to the stress with out dulling its emotional weight. There’s honesty, but in addition groove. There’s melancholy, but in addition a lightness that finds its kind within the funky polyphonic beats and synths. When you’re in the identical languid house Janessa was when she penned the one, dig into Push & Pull and embrace the sanctuary constructed inside it.
Now 23, Janessa has spent over a decade shaping her musical sensibility, first by way of early performances in Nashville, and now by way of her continued songwriting evolution on the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Her RnB-laced sound pairs vulnerability with melodic precision, grounding her heartbreak narratives with the unmistakable authenticity of lived expertise.
Push & Pull is now out there to stream on all main platforms, together with SoundCloud.
Overview by Amelia Vandergast
