Good songwriting stands tall, something authentic and well-built – a strong acoustic backdrop, a lush groove and lush vocals, a sense of meaning at its core. Wyoki delivers an alternative earworm on that front, with the strangely enthralling, imperfect but beautifully addictive Hotel.
Softly anthemic in its old-school fast-paced but gentle and breathy vocal, the build and two-note consistency of the verses is brilliantly resolved by the sudden rise at the end of each longer phrase. That’s a mouth-full to analyse, but it works well within the song, and the the chorus has a much snappier, catchier refrain to it, completing the process effectively.
The Wyoki sound is distinct, without a doubt – the doubled voices, the soft intensity, the catchy stories and sounds. Hotel is recognisable the moment you’ve heard it, and it remains that way indefinitely, despite a fairly humble pop-rock arrangement and chord pattern. This one is easily worth a few streams this year.
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