Many of you will remember SPELLLING for the Recommended Album ‘The Turning Wheel’, which, published in 2021, promised to dazzle Kate Bush’s followers; or for his Italian disco minihit ‘Under the Sun’, included on his previous album, ‘Mazy Fly’ (2019).
In 2023, SPELLLING released ‘Spellling & the Mystery School’, a re-recording album that includes songs from their three previous works.
SPELLLING is among the artists whose comebacks are announced for 2025. ‘Portrait of My Heart’, the new album by the American singer-songwriter, whose given name is Chrystia Cabral, is released on March 28 via Sacred Bones.
‘Portrait of My Heart’ proposes a “more energetic” musical direction, which seems to mean that it will focus on a guitar or pop-rock style. That is the sound presented by their first preview, the title track, which we chose as Song of the Day for today, Thursday.
“I don’t paint anything here” is the phrase that is repeated endlessly in ‘Portrait of My Heart’ and that inevitably reminds us of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’. In ‘Portrait of My Heart’, Chrystia finds herself “lost” and “broken in the darkness” as the memory of a “strange” person torments her. To convey this sense of emotional chaos, SPELLLING creates an instrumental squall through noise guitars and hazy keyboards that evokes a feeling of threat and martyrdom.
SPELLLING has sought to compose a “timeless” album. To do this, he has used the help of Toro y Moi, who sings on ‘Mount Analogue’, or Turnstile guitarist Pat McCrory, who plays on ‘Alibi’.
