London artist Aziya today shares her first release of the year, the nocturnal, new wave-inspired ‘party’s over’.
Following last year’s EP ‘Lonely Castles‘, Aziya and Grammy award-winning producer John Hill, fashion a dusky ode to the thrill of a nighttime encounter and the missed opportunity of what could have been. On ‘Party’s Over’, Aziya levels up her sound, transitioning from the driving churn of synth-driven punk to its sombre closing notes.
Of the release, Aziya shares: “It’s about seeing someone in the crowd and all of your fantasies and intentions and lust is on that person from the moment you see them, an instant attraction but the inability and lack of being able to approach them. So you play at the ‘confident you’ walking up to them in your head. And by the time the party’s over you go home and realise you didn’t get that persons number and you didn’t ask them so they’ll forever just be a ghost, a memory in head and a thought of what could have been.”
Across two EPs – 2021’s ‘We Speak of Tides’ and ‘Lonely Castles’ – Aziya emerged as a one-woman show, brandishing her guitar and seamlessly drifting between acoustic overtures and more anthemic numbers like ‘Slip!’. ‘party’s over’ signals a new era for the singer; it’s the first single from a forthcoming project.
Aziya says of quest for growth and self-definition: “I saw on ‘LONELY CASTLES’ that people were really responding for the first time. Before, people really loved the covers I was making, which was great. But now people aren’t going ‘What’s that Tame Impala song?’, they’re asking, ‘What’s that Aziya song?’”
Revisit our 2021 PLTFRM interview Aziya here.
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Photo Credit: Jake Evans
