The four songs on this debut EP are about trying to make connections between dreams and reality. As the title suggests, it's also about trying to find a voice.
The mood is tense and the tone is brooding as though the singer is stretched to breaking point.
A measure of her emotional intensity is summed up by a line like "Every cell in your body belongs to the thought in my brain" in The World Doesn't Know.
Jeni Magana is a Brooklyn based singer who trained to play upright bass and clarinet but was drawn away from the classical world to indie rock.
Inches Apart is about loving someone who wants different things while Get It Right expresses impatience ("don't waste my time, make up your damn mind" that borders on explosive rage.
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I feel this would a more interesting record if this anger was more out in the open and vengeful.
As it is, it all sounds as if she is too willing to compromise in order to maintain a sense of decorum.
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