Album Review : Shaela Miller’s ‘After The Masquerade’
Shaela Miller presents life as technicolor synths and amazing beats. And activated by her vocals, they become a polished corridor of synth pop that you can drift through. The artist began her music journey as a singer-songwriter with doting acoustics and soft presentations. And now, even though she has gone on to explore a new plane of music altogether, you’ll still find her love for songwriting and lyrical affluence featuring in these soundscapes.
‘After the Masquerade’ is Shaela Miller’s newest and freshest album. Sporting eleven tracks, it journeys through a range of human emotion and experience. There’s a lot of cinematic allure, retro themes, dance, and altogether, a colorful performance that you will not forget in a hurry. Think Cyndi Lauper, Arcade Fire, Phoebe Bridges, Taylor Swift, and Olivia Rodriguez. It’s a cocktail of all of their ethos with a whole order of Shaela too. Listen Now!
The tracks are marked with vivid strokes of neo-classicals, indie pop, synthwave, contemporary pop, all mixed in with commercial pop sequences. In ‘Start A Fire’, you’ll especially experience 80s synths that are spun seamlessly into the modern lyricism, violin lifts, and country guitar frames. The vocals have a range of personalities and emotions that change with every verse to create a narrative depth. Tracks like ‘In My Dreams’ and ‘Station’ also sport these lilting vocal promiscuities.
In ‘Of Roses’ and ‘Mourning Tonight’, the artist entangles romance, heartache, nostalgia, and dance. The synths are larger than life, the beats are full of rhythm, and Shaela’s vocals are pieces of life blurred with emotion and memory. If you want to keep up with it, you’ll have to flutter with the melodies and the rhythms. Very retro disco with faint subtexts of country blues.
These tracks are filtered with some mellow and contemplative numbers. ‘As The World Falls Down’ is a contemporary pop song that is flavored with enchanting blues, classicals, and old school grooves. ‘I Can’t Love’ and ‘The End’ are also slow tracks that brew and evolve with emotion in real time. The vocals and lyrical elements are especially enjoyable.
There’s a unique charm to an artist that stays true to themselves. Shaela’s music authentically reflects all the fragments, faculties, and features contained within her. Reconciling all these pieces, she fills her soundscape with memory, sentiment, passion, and power. The artist enjoys the ambiguity of her craft, leaning into it to create a sonic sphere that is really, and truly her own.
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The album is available for streaming on popular sites like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music!
You can listen to ‘After The Masquerade’ by Shaela Miller here -
