Single Review: Tripping

This latest single from Lola Sola, Tripping, is pure simplicity; simple enough to allow nothing to draw your attention away from the vocals. With very little instrumentation beyond a guitar (which doubles as the tracks percussive element), there is nothing complicated about it, and it creates a slow and weary ambience.

Most importantly though, it creates an aura of delirious satisfaction and contentedness. Lola Sola has a gorgeous variety of vocal qualities, with a Gin Wigmore/Amy Winehouse twang when she projects some grit into her style.

Almost dream-like, Tripping, ebbs and flows like a truly natural tide, rising and falling until the crest breaks and then back again. It’s simple, but it’s as complicated as it needs to be to get its point across.