Rachel Chinouriri
What A Devastating Turn of Events
70--80点相当
Born in Croydon to Zimbabwean émigré parents, the 25-year-old has said that making music has allowed her to reclaim her place in the indie scene, having been bullied at school due to her race and mislabelled as an ‘R&B artist’ in her early career. These billowing, guitar-driven odes to home and past relationships recall Samia at her most reflective or a more low-key Indigo De Souza, and are about “trying to understand the things that caused me so much trauma,” as Chinouriri recently told NME.
Though this jubilee comes with an air of self-assuredness: even as Chinouriri sings of nauseatingly awkward romantic blunders (‘Dumb Bitch Juice’) or disillusionment (‘The Hills’), the music is characterised by the way it flirts with intrepid drums and falsetto moments, often belying the ache at its core. Armed with a lush and tender vocal, she is an ideal narrator for stories that centre around what it takes to gain a more mature, wizened perspective.
”クロイドンでジンバブエ移民の両親のもとに生まれた25歳の彼女は、人種のせいで学校でいじめられ、彼女の中で「R&Bアーティスト」と誤認されてきたが、音楽を作ることでインディーズシーンでの自分の居場所を取り戻すことができたと語った。初期のキャリア。家庭と過去の関係へのこれらのうねるギター主導の賛歌は、サミアの最も内省的な、またはより控えめなインディゴ・デ・スーザを思い出させ、チノウリリが最近NMEに語ったように、「私に大きなトラウマを引き起こしたものを理解しようとしている」ことを歌っている。”