Toronto native Olive B (Nicole Olivia Balsom) has just released her latest single, the excellent 'Joey Moon', featuring production from Vancouver-based producer Chewy.
It's a decidedly spirited affair, featuring bouncy muted synth pads and a just-shy-of-funk mid-tempo bassline. The whole thing is brought together with a very relaxed and downtempo beat, which features just the right amount of subtle nuances in its percussion without distracting from the even more mellow vocal. God knows how these people managed to toe the line between laid-back R&B and mid-tempo funk, but they pulled it off wonderfully.
The vocal delivery is definitely the highlight, musing in an unhurried manner about meeting up with a friend (or maybe a potential lover?), before repeating the ever-catchy refrain of "fly me to the moon". Yes, it may be an overused lyric but goddamn she gets away with it. With style, no less.
Olive's vocal style skips over the beat in a most playful way, peaking where the music troughs and vice versa, sung in a quiet, almost husky tone. All the elements are so complimentary to each other it's hard to believe that Olive wrote the vocal melody by free-styling the first half of the verse.
All in all, this is a sold lazy summer jam, a perfect soundtrack to drinking expensive cocktails whislt lying in the sun. If you like this, be sure to check out Olive B's debut album 'no(w)here', which was released May 29th last year.
'Joey Moon' is out now on all streaming services.
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