Sofie Demi's voice sounds greater, followed by her single "Enjoy the Silence," a philosophical song as all get out, woven through with touching melodies that you could live in. Demi brings us back from the noise of a broken world and asks what it really means to be alive in these uncertain times.
Instead of following the well-marked paths of teen love, Sofie dares to posit existential questions. What is life without a soul? In what part of Hell does Heaven lurk? What if all I know fades to black in not knowing? These lines don't just hang in the air, they linger, as if propelled by forward momentum too strong to let them go, requiring the listener to grapple with them long after the final notes decay. Sofie's voice has a fragile openness to it, but an intelligence burns beneath, one that is refined through endeavours beyond music writing, novels, and poems, devising chess strategies, and pondering over the grand thoughts of astrophysics. All of these interests weave their way into her songcraft, and before the net was cast yet wider, she is building up an inquisitive universe rare at twice her age.
"Enjoy the Silence" is a commandment. A reminder to cherish the tenuous, transient beauty of what we have. It all can disappear in a heartbeat. Sofie Demi is no longer just a songwriter, but a thinker, a blossoming young artist not afraid to reflect the world to itself and herself. With this release, she establishes herself as one to watch, listen to, and perhaps most importantly, reflect with.