Janessa Turns Emotional Whiplash into Soul-Centred Geometry in the RnB Mosaic ‘Push & Pull’

With Push & Pull, Nashville-born, Liverpool-based artist Janessa takes the conflicting emotional trajectories of love and constructs a funk-wrapped, soul-drenched sonic sugar for the pill of being torn between distance and closeness within a dynamic you know is ebbing away at the colour of your world. Written in the immediate aftermath of a breakup and conceived in one cathartic sitting with producer Jacob Weinreich and guitarist Josh Phillips, Push & Pull captures the raw clarity that floods in when the emotional fog finally lifts. With Janessa’s timelessly sanctifying harmonies easing you into her lyrical reckoning, the track swells with a cinematic warmth, yet it never sacrifices the jagged truth of the experience. As the moody textures thicken around her intimate vocal performance, the kaleidoscope of tones brings relief to the tension without dulling its emotional weight. There’s honesty, but also groove. There’s melancholy, but also a lightness that finds its form in the funky polyphonic beats and synths. If you’re in the same languid space Janessa was when she penned the single, dig into Push & Pull and embrace the sanctuary built within it. Now 23, Janessa has spent over a decade shaping her musical sensibility, first through early performances […]

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