"The producer and singer's second album is a freewheeling journey through clubs, bedrooms, and panic that's as cheeky and propulsive as it is heavy. Where her debut Forever, Ya Girl was affirmational and atmospheric, healing incense for working folks trying to get by, Hooke's Law is an accelerant. Over staggering tracks overrun with rhythms, melodies, and voices, keiyaA hurtles through the abyss and dares you to keep up."
"Embracing that ethos, she prioritizes tension, narrating struggles with love and mental health in the nervous heat of real time. The unruly arrangements flow freely from drunken R&B to racing breakbeats to mellow IDM. Sound effects and warped samples abound: explosions, shattering glass, the iconic Lex Luger riser, clips of poems by Jayne Cortez and Pat Parker, and a flip of Jadakiss' " U Make U Wanna.""
keiyaA's second album, Hooke's Law, channels elastic tension through frenetic production and candid narratives of love and mental health. The record moves between clubs, bedrooms, and panic, blending drunken R&B, racing breakbeats, and mellow IDM with warped samples and sound effects. The title invokes classical physics: the notion that a stretched coil can recoil without losing shape, a metaphor for resilience amid depression and loss. Tracks overflow with rhythms, melodies, voices, poetry clips, and risers, balancing playfulness and heaviness while delivering confessional, cheeky, and propulsive songs that confront desire, anxiety, and survival in urgent, real-time moments.
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