Creative indie pop of substance and honesty – songwriter and artist Vituia flips the script in favour of realism and raw humanity this season, with a new collection of songs that feel strangely intimate but also decidedly vast.
From the artist who brought us The coolest, They Won The World captures a new side of contemplative creativity, as Vituia dives into our collective history and heartbreak. Featuring canned vocals and a confronting march of a groove, They Won The World is both harmonic (even angelic) and outrageously poignant.
It’s an alternative style, grounded by the comfort of a vocal choir and this rise and fall arrangement, and the lyrics and passion of the delivery make the words and emotions pour through in a boldly awakening fashion. ‘Slaves by the end of the day’ resounds and echoes in the mind, along with multiple other key moments of reflection that feel historical and also, sadly, undeniably relevant.
This style of recording returns for All Of The Bankers (Radio Edit), a scornful take on elite control and financial greed, a song that’s melodically and rhythmically calming but lyrically fierce, and filled with an unignorable fire for escaping the grip of inequality and the careless thirst for power.
There’s something like an adlib nature to these songs, almost a stream of consciousness but guided by diary-like poems both personal and broadly inclusive.
Back to You is a fine example, distorted and raw but also melodically uplifting, and the topic is hopeful, revealing, and again relatable. This song feels fuller arrangement-wise but somewhat softer conceptually and in the gentle nature of the performance. Vituia holds nothing back, self-reflects and calls out for connection and resolve at the very same time. ‘Every decision I make is wrong… thinking with my balls… I didn’t have the balls to run away…’
Next we turn towards colourful acoustic warmth, but as ever, the vibe is starkly contrasted by the vitriol of the lyrics. You’re a Dirty Truck turns blame and disgrace towards a specific woman, and feels exceedingly raw, even one-take in its fearless immaturity and anger. No doubt relatable to those who’ve also been scorned or left aside.
Finally, we’re welcomed back into the realm of a bold political voice, as Pigeons of the Far Left again counters hopeful, mellow indie-pop vibes with confrontational thoughts and metaphors that invite listeners on a unique and strangely joyful journey.
Vituia writes songs unfiltered and unafraid to really go there – the style is genuine, the stories devotedly unbothered by expectation or opinion, and the voice, in both writing and tone, is quickly unmistakable. The realism resounds, and Vituia’s creative escapism as such provides something defiantly pure.
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