The latest release ‘Evilin’ from ‘Scottish Alternative Music Award’ winner Zoe Graham earns emphatic tens across the board.

Exciting, chaotic and mystical with a slow release of an impending darkness.

The base of the track I would say is a kooky, unsettling 80s feel groove and I love it – in fact, I absolutely adore it.

The sonic picture is so broad and well exploited.

If this song is your one bed flat, in an ideal location, the ratio between plants and floor space is perfect, your back garden you share with over fifty people is clean and peaceful. As that second verse hits, the brass kicks in and it’s all over! It smashes through the floor when things are getting its most hectic, provoking a really difficult conversation with the neighbours downstairs.

I’ve not yet heard such a deliberate, textured and manipulated chaos. It was a profound pleasure to be thrown into.

The soft vocal delivers knockout blows, a sucker punch in the temple with a plastic bag full of damp feathers.

There is something that feels very twisted and sinister but it’s okay, I think we are all safe.

Visiting the idea of things that work, there is not a single sound, noise or element that doesn’t hit its spot and do it’s job, just like the ‘Evilin’ who we’ve got to know over the last three minutes.

Popular music is so often incredibly safe and formulaic but ‘Evilin’ stands a strong protester to that notion. The kind of experimentation and disregard for the norm gives me joy. Direct storytelling that feels homely and universal.

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Spend the time to get to know ‘Evilin’ you won’t regret it!