Tetra may prove the breakout electro-pop star music has been patiently anticipating. Accompanied by the emergence of same-lane artists like FKA Twigs, Banks, Sky Ferreira, Marina and the Diamonds, Maxine Ashley, and Ellie Goulding, Tetra is making the music EDM, house, and Hip Hop DJ’s dig through the digital crates for. Her debut EP, Meter, is a seven song glow stick grind session. Her voice, heard strongest on “Limbo”, is alternately loud and clear then soft and sensuous. On “Ruby Red Lips”, Tetra sings out to a perceivably same-sex lover, flirting: “Baby I keep thinkin’ ‘bout your ruby red lips / Just let me love you tonight.” The Berklee-educated songbird switches up the tempo on the 80’s homage “Reason to Breathe”, singing: “You’re the only reason I keep breathing / I keep dreaming.”
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While the dance floor is clearly the destination for Tetra and co-writer/producer Ben Cohen, Tetra draws deeper from the well with “The Tunnel”, a slow-motion conversation with poignant affect. “I’m living in photos of success / But I don’t know where my day went… hypnotized.” While the Meter EP’s first six tracks take your money at the door, stamp your hand, point you to the disco lit designated disco sphere, and remind you of the two-drink-minimum, The Tunnel offers listeners a glimpse into an at once visibly affectionate, anxiously uneasy Tetra; vulnerability, she’s wears it well.
Encountering Meter isn’t enough. Experience it. And not just in the club or car, clean the house to it. Like, loud; until law enforcement knocks at the front door and demands you lower the volume. The EP, like its colorful creator, is an uninhibited physical movement enticer, provocative in its approach to recapturing Cindy Lauper “girls just wanna have fun” glory while furthering the popularized nuances found in her girl-gem-genre, which prefers cigarettes and chartreuse shots to bubble gum and any Boy persona non grata to Pharrell’s Billionaire Club.
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