Violet Days

Made in My Head 

Patrick O’Heffernan

Violet Days’ music  has always been addictive.  This Swedish collaborative project made up of singer-songwriter/artist Lina Hansson and renowned producer Kris Eriksson knows exactly how to create earworms that stay with you.  Happily, Violet Days just released their debut EP, Made in My Head, produced by Eriksson. It may have been made in their heads, but it joyfully it inhabits my dance muscles and eardrums as well.

The five tracks on the EP – seven with the addition of two earlier tracks “Leave But Go” and  “Just A Little Remixes” —  range from the high energy pop storytelling “I Think…” to the dreamy “Two Years”,  which launches with full orchestration and then goes into out-there dream pop mode, followed by the jerky even dreamier pop “Cocaine Kisses” with its complex beats, swooping background melodies and  Lina’s pure, sensually-textured female vocals.

The EP gives you an interesting break with  a 33-second  mono-tonal instrumental that sets you up for the final song,  “Leave But Don’t Go”, a viscerally satisfying mélange of complex drum machine rhythms, vocal overdubs , and synth instrumentation. Written by Lina and Ericksson, the song is an easy to listen to and hard to forget celebration of friendships and relationships.  Without a doubt this is one you put on your playlist with “Repeat” checked.

When you check out Violet Days, listen to everything, especially “Somber”, which is a good portal into the heads that created the EP. At its heart it’s a let-it-all-hang-out ballad stream out with synths, electronic beats and Lina’s very strong but very feminine voice, with wxnderlost records singer morgxn joining in.

Whether you are singing along in the car or on your scooter, working with your earphones on, or dancing out at home with friends, Violet Days  makes a great musical companion, especially Made in My head.  I hope they keep on making music in their heads and recording it so we get to listen to.

Patrick O’Heffernan.  Host, Music FridayLive!,

Made in My Head,  https://www.violetdays.com/

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