Anohni - Paradise

Last year, Anohni surprised us all with a great album, and now she drops a new EP that is more an extended exploration in the themes and sounds of Hopelessness. But that doesn't makes this new effort a collection a lesser songs, on the contrary, it broadens the possibilities of Anohni's discourse, especially focusing in her environmental activism. The title track of this EP, Paradise, circles around the idea that the world is in a battle of forces: in one hand, nature, the creative power, and in the other, humanity, the destructive power. Anohni contrapones this ideas all along the song, letting us see how this potential paradise is threatened by human greed, this lack of vision of the future that will summit the entire world into despair.

Teaming again with Hudson Mohawke and Daniel Lopatin (better known as Oneothrix Point Never), the sound is much more industrial and rough this time, probably because how the world politics advanced in the months between the release of Hopelessness and Paradise made no more space for ethereal lamentations, and now it's time to take a much active position in the fight, and also this distorted synths help to the idea of binary opposition when faced against Anohni's very human voice.

Paradise is a track that reflects very well how much artists can do from their fronts to keep spreading their political message, because electronic music tends to stay away from politics and ideologies, but here we can see that a message can find new ways to be portrayed and being incendiary.