Alternative Pop from Ari Abdul

At just twenty years old, alternative pop artist Ari Abdul has been taking the music world by storm, already racking up over a hundred million streams of her music on Spotify alone. Growing up in Brooklyn, music quickly became a second language to Ari with her Ecuadorian mother’s love for Latin music, her father introducing her to classic rock and her brothers who were passionate about hip hop and metal.

Picking up a guitar aged fourteen, she started playing grunge from bands like Nirvana, but it wasn’t until July last year that she was encouraged to add her voice to the mix and started her solo artist journey. Dropping her debut single in February this year with “BABYDOLL”, she now brings us her debut EP titled Fallen Angel.

Featuring her first single as well as highlight track “HUSH”, the six-song release perfectly showcases Ari Abdul’s dark pop sound. From her time at a Catholic school, she became fascinated with the story of Lucifer and the ‘fallen angel’ idea, framing her first EP with the context of that narrative.

Commenting on the EP, she shares, “You have like these nice, lovely, innocent sounding songs. And by the end of the EP, the songs get really distorted and heavier, and the lyrics get darker. Maybe there’ll be an emotion or a little something that happens in my life in a song, but the EP is completely storytelling. We keep pretty melodies, but still have production and lyrics that completely contradict those pretty melodies.”

Working with friend and producer Thomas LaRosa, with her first EP she rounds off a wildly successful first year with a captivating release that confirms the massive hype around an endlessly exciting new artist.

Listen to Fallen Angel below

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