Within the opening rays of Sharo’s newest single, California Solar, you’ll be swept into waves of Cali synth-pop, the place temperate oceanic soul and retrowave shimmer are signed, sealed, and delivered straight from the shore. You may nearly odor the lemon haze on the retro synths because the melody breezes in, floating between peaks of effervescent euphoria and undercurrents of melancholy unnoticed to dry beneath the blistering aural rays. Sharo manages to tug the resonance straight from the salt air, inviting listeners to float with the flotsam in his uniquely bittersweet sound.
For those who’ve been on the hunt for the golden center floor between moody synth-pop and euphorically kinetic earworms, that is your port of name. The scintillating synthetics shimmer round Sharo’s intimately candy vocal fashion, which traces a melancholic line paying homage to Elliott Smith, with out ever settling for pastiche.
The Maryland-based producer and vocalist, who has been navigating the boundaries between EDM, chillwave, lo-fi hip hop, and pop since 2016, continues to develop his aural palette on this single. California Solar is a vivid, genre-surfing testomony to his evolution and proof that even within the deepest artificial grooves, vulnerability can bask unashamed within the mild.
California Solar is now out there on all main streaming platforms, together with Spotify.
Evaluation by Amelia Vandergast
