The current pandemic has been a watershed moment for TikTok. Beneath all its addictive dance routines, whipped coffee tutorials, and outrageous election memes, the app has quickly become a breeding ground for a recent wave of pop icons on social media. It was responsible for sending Kiwi legend BENEE’s “Supaleniely” into the stratosphere, while rapper Powfu’s Beabadoobee-sampling “death bed (coffee for your head)” has racked up more than 1 billion streams across streaming services.
Built on DeTiger’s glam-grunge club kid aesthetic, it’s a wildly animated effort that plays up the maximalist nature of her glowing, deliberately brazen image. Magnetic lead single “Figure It Out” hits the nail on the head with a thumping riff that’s wonderfully clear, while “Vintage,” a sloppy indie banger, is dizzying and perfectly unstable, with sincere lyrics that could easily have been lifted from a teenager’s diary: “Yes, it breaks the rules, but I would like to have it”she sings lightly, as if lost in thought.
There are occasional moments, however, where the EP’s free-spiritedness threatens to overwhelm. For example, the cheekily titled “disco banger but you’re crying in the bathroom” gets lost in its distant riffs, which sound tedious compared to the explosions of colour elsewhere.
Details
- Release date: March 5
- Plant: Blu DeTiger / ALT:Vision Records
