This year, we fell in love with Your Best Nightmare, and featured her evocative and assertive debut single, Really Cute, as well as her intricate and cerebral sophomore single, Ghost Town Love, so when we heard that the star had released her long awaited self-titled EP in full, we were curious to experience the record and couldn’t wait to share our feedback.
The five track opus opens with Vampire Lover, which draws is into Your Best Nightmare‘s universe with a luscious and dramatic ukulele soundscape, her signature of course, and metaphorical prose filled with philosophical nuance.
We love the high-octane energy of the track, and the naturally self-realized nature of what Your Best Nightmare, also known as artist Erin Porter conveys, telling us how she could eat us up. Needless to say, we have succumbed to her charisma and charm and are ready to be devoured.
The sound design showcases nothing short of instrumental mastery, and we adore Erin’s vocal trills and poetic nature. We can imagine how captivating this would be to experience live. The rising artist has played the Stone Pony in Asbury Park and the Doll Hut in Anaheim! She has worked her way from coast to coast in the continental US and has had a blast along the way.
Next up is Really Cute, which opens with the iconic line “I got dressed up real cute just to watch you argue with the waiter about your f*cking salad…“, and creates space for Erin to deliver her “satirical, feminist bite”.
The record as a whole feels really cohesive, leading us seamlessly onto Eyeliner which opens with an almost 60s adjacent energy demonstrating timelessness in her sound, but of course with a sassy and unique narrative, filled with subversive yet empowering themes and lyrical wordplay.
We love the rawness that you can feel with the star’s delivery, it’s not over processed by any means, setting it apart from her contemporaries, and allowing us to truly connect with the smart and witty soul of the songwriter, at the core of the project.
Paint the Town Red is next, and wildly the same title as Doja Cat‘s recent single, which shows how Erin is truly on the zeitgeist. The record finishes up with Ghost Town Love, which we adore for its escapist narrative as a horror-adjacent story. Speaking on the message of the track and protagonist of the EP, Erin tells us, “The main character has gone as far as she can, and made a ghost town to keep the one she loves alive. It’s an ode to the fantasy of running away with the one you love.”
We loved every minute of the seamless and refined project, we love Erin’s notably intelligent commentary on her own reality and society, and have added Vampire Lover to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we continue to stream the EP in full and anticipate future releases from the visionary creator.