｡✾New Single Review:✧✼: ĠENN “Calypso (Goya Remix)”
8 February 2024
Chinwe’s new track tells the story of losing yourself to love in this club-ready anthem, filled with retro dance grooves and soulful experimentation.
‘Down’ is Chinwe’s first single of 2024, dropping after the release of her EP Fall at the end of 2023. It marks a musical departure for the artist, away from quieter introspection and towards the hedonistic sounds of euphoric late-night bliss.
The track kicks off with the enthralling opening lyric “You’re like a drug to me” and from this daring declaration onwards, listeners are pulled, alongside Chinwe, into this fantasy world of infatuation, lust and desire.
Through a carefully curated blend of dance and soul influences, among the many eclectic sounds on the record, Chinwe embarks on this self-aware journey into the thralls of a new relationship. Among the intoxicating dance grooves of ‘Down, Chinwe describes the overwhelmingly compulsion of desire for another in the honeymoon period of blossoming new romance. But in the back of her mind Chinwe wonders if these feelings will still be the same once the high has gone and she has “Come down”.
Ultimately, through ‘Down’, Chinwe invites listeners onto the dancefloor for romantic indulgence, rhythmic bliss and reassurance. Chinwe may describe her feelings of infatuation as “like a drug”, but on ‘Down’, her captivating sonic grooves take on that role and act as an alluring elixir for hedonistic lovers everywhere.
