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Seattle vocalist Eugenie Jones sends your ears into a sultry night sky with her new single "Starlight Starbright," crooning an intimate nocturnal serenade. Her voice coasted effortlessly, like a collection across a backdrop of silken musical stardust.
The beautiful track "Starlight Starbright" is excellent for its emotional display. It isn't about theatre or vocal acrobatics. Without it, Jones shows us that power can exist in humble luminescence. It is more than what you hear, a sense of song, a pinprick of hope, a lookalike starling, you feel listened to. "Starlight Starbright" unfolds at a deliberate pace, allowing for careful restraint. There is an air in the arrangement, a breath between the chords. Piano lines atmospherically ebb and flow, brushed drums caress the rhythm like footsteps on fresh snow, and every note sounds intended only to serve this powerfully concise mission statement. Jones conversationally delivers these verses, intimate yet not confessional, more akin to an embrace at a dimly lit jazz bar.
It's a timeless and newly engrossing jazz track at heart. Jones gets at a feeling from the first note, it's a whispering wonder, an ethereal glow that is somehow floaty and rooted. The nuance in her warm whisperings reveals as though she's letting slip your most secret desires into the velvet night. Your enchantment is not bombastic, instead, it is a hush tapping at the door, a lullaby for reluctant adults nudged awake by what they swear was potential.
This is a declaration with this release as a premiere. It tells you that she is an artist of mood and texture, a maker through the intimate architecture of song. Jazz has always given humanity a voice where words left off, and the most profound truths are sometimes carried in the whisper of a melody.