Name: Reincarnation
Brand: Bonzie

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PAWR009

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Black

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-23

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Supplier US

Orchard

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

195497355242

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Bonzie

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Beevine Records

Since first arriving on the musical landscape, BONZIE has found endless new forms of expressing her vast imagination. A Chicago-based songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, she’s explored everything from post-rock to folk to fantastically surrealist pop, executing each with extraordinary grace. Over the years, she’s also drawn acclaim for her captivating live show. On her third album Reincarnation, BONZIE again pushes the limits of her musicality, ultimately creating a listening experience not unlike lucid dreaming: immersive and infinitely spellbinding yet touched with a transformative clarity. The follow-up to her 2017 sophomore effort Zone on Nine, Reincarnation was co-produced by BONZIE alongside Darhyl “DJ” Camper, a musician known for his production work with R&amp;B and hip-hop artists like Jay-Z, Big Sean, John Legend and Teyana Taylor. In a departure from her past output, the album combines elements of electro-pop, artrock and even gospel music, unfolding in potent rhythms and shapeshifting textures. Also featuring production work from Yeti Beats (Doja Cat), Reincarnation unveils a kinetic new sound already hailed as “The Weeknd meets Evanescence.” A fearlessly singular body of work, Reincarnation serves as an exquisite showcase for BONZIE’s newly emboldened songwriting. To that end, the title to Reincarnation refers to the radical sense of possibility she’s espoused in reflecting on the current state of the world.

“I feel that there’s room in the world for rebirth; that it’s possible for certain things to go away after this moment in time, and for something different and new to come back in its place,” says Nina Ferraro, who’s created under the moniker of BONZIE since age 17. “It could be like the shedding of skin off a snake.” 

Throughout Reincarnation BONZIE sets her self-reflection to a stormy but luminous sonic backdrop, a fitting counterpart to her chameleonic vocals. On the lead single “alone,” for instance, her voice soars and warps in its channeling of pensive isolation, blending beautifully with the track’s fingerpicked guitar tones. The meandering dreamscape that is “alone” has already been praised by NPR Music’s “All Songs Considered” and was deemed as one of the “Best Songs of 2020” by The New York Times. On “Lethal,” BONZIE summons a sweet radiance in the song’s crystalline horns and lilting string work, then twists the mood with her penetrating refrain, “Either you want to die or you don’t want to die.” And with its elegant collision of so many mesmerizing details—trembling rhythms and glistening synth, a stunning mid-song shift in tempo, Camper’s cascading background vocals—“Slated” perfectly echoes the tender confusion within its lyrics. Elsewhere on Reincarnation, BONZIE embodies everything from gloriously defiant hope (on the album’s effervescent title track) to wild-eyed romanticism (on the opulent and epic “Heavy Rain”).

Reincarnation

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