PREMIERE: Bambi O'Hara reveals debut single 'Vanilla Fumes': "Whilst writing this song I started to understand why it’s important to be vulnerable"
Image: She Is Aphrodite
Tasmanian raised, now Sydney based singer-songwriter Bambi O’Hara - real name Emma Howard - releases her debut single 'Vanilla Fumes’ this Friday 21 August but today you can listen to it exclusively through Women In Pop, one day before its official release.
Previously a student of fine arts, Howard has a talent for portrait painting and has designed everything herself for this release, enlisting only two other people to work on the project - photographer She Is Aphrodite and producer Tim McArtney.
A beguiling, hypnotic track that blends elements of pop, smoky jazz, soul, electro and artpop the track details the breakdown of a relationship with Howard wrapping her silky smooth, effortlessly expansive vocals around whipsmart and wry lyrics such as “Listen to you lie / Don’t act shy / Or try to hide the fact that everyone knows your backbone is hard to find”.
"'Vanilla Fumes' for me, is vindictive and vulnerable at the same time – like something you need to rip off your chest,” Howard says. “Whilst writing this particular song, I started to understand why it’s important to be vulnerable, even though I hate to be, because it’s the first step towards any true reconnection with yourself, and anyone else."
Howard has the rare talent to pull together a disparate collection of influences and sonic elements to create music that is absolutely compelling and with her debut EP still to come, this is one artist we will be following with interest. Click below to listen to ‘Vanilla Fumes’ now.
