A spirited, heart-on-sleeve pop enthusiasm takes maintain on Higher Luck Subsequent Time, the debut EP from Jake Marshall. Hook-friendly pop productions pair with Marshall’s spectacular vocal vary, spanning 4 octaves, alongside emotively relatable themes of transferring on. “This EP is my approach of letting go,” Marshall says. “The sentiment of ‘higher luck subsequent time’ is straightforward, nevertheless it was a very tough place to get to—a spot of genuinely wishing happiness, love, and good issues to the individuals of my previous, even when they’ve wronged me. There’s peace within the letting go.”
Opening the EP in stellar type, “TOO MUCH! (Remix)” melds commentary on nurturing, affecting, and heartbreak — from lack of affection throughout childhood to current-day relationship strains. “Now that you just’re out of my life, I really feel so alive,” the cathartic vocals reveal following a hooky synth-pop swell, discovering peace in launch following heartbreak. Layered vocal airiness and spacey synths intertwine melodically all through. That includes Allexx Fé, “Lullabye” succeeds with a dreamier, soulful pop disposition, melding bouncy bass and serene synth pulses amidst vocals inside “now I discovered a superb man,” exultations following the opener’s heartache.
One other standout is “Subsequent Time,” which concludes the EP in its overarching thematic prowess and melodic rock/pop intertwining. The title beckons to try for higher instances following heartbreak, emphasizing how falling for the fallacious individuals can immediate a therapeutic course of that culminates in breaking free and celebrating independence greater than ever earlier than. “I hope he’s a greater man than I,” the vocals admit with compelling radiance. “I want you higher luck subsequent time.” An audible conveying of moving-on pairs splendidly with ear-warming pushes of mellow piano, percussive pit-pattering, and bursting guitar crescendos. Such sturdy songwriting and manufacturing is constantly obvious all through Higher Luck Subsequent Time, an intensive success from Jake Marshall.
