Choosing honesty over comfort, MIIA blends timeless electronic dance-pop with evocative realism, for the long-form and soulful expressions of Necessary Evil.
Something like a carefully matched fusion of nineties UK garage, dance pop and perhaps the experimental trip hop tones and songwriting of Imogen Heap, Necessary Evil is unorthodox but engaging – a stream of lyrics and changing intensity from the vocal, all feeling overwhelming but effective as the song gathers momentum.
The structure is brilliant, the song tightening its grip on the listener increasingly as things roll along, and the chorus is completely outlandish in some ways, but powerfully captivating and rather addictive in being so. It’s the indie meets mainstream blending, the alternative energy and personality, intertwined with the precision and power of great production and songwriting.
MIIA impresses, in short, and this is a refreshingly original must for the summer playlists.
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