The Berlin-based singer-songwriter EVÎN has shared her highly-anticipated second EP “It Wasn’t Even For You” on Friday, 25th November. The versatile EP consists of six tracks – some perfect for darker, cold winter days while the others invite you to dance your worries away. EVÎN’s vulnerability transcends throughout the whole EP, which allows the listener to go on a journey with her.
EVÎN’s style can be described as a combination of a Western-influenced urban world fused with Middle Eastern aesthetics, soundscapes, and language – Contemporary R&B elements meeting the sound of her Kurdish roots. She sings about the personal things she’s along carried her whole life: Her experiences about flight, culture and belonging. In “It Wasn’t Even For You”, she also deals with the loss of her late father, a Kurdish-Alevi journalist and activist, which graces the EP with themes of transience and preservation.
“In limbo between self-love and doubt”
The EP’s first single “Golden Days,” tells the story of a supposedly carefree youth that – when transfiguration clears – was anything but golden. For “Devotion“, she left her comfort zone and reminded us that kindness should not be confused with love. Her latest single “Yarê“, released alongside the EP, is about her desire to create something consistent in the constant limbo between self-love and trust on the one hand and self-doubt and self-hate on the other.
“It Wasn’t Even For You” is available on all streaming platforms here.
Cover photo by Elena Kasnatschejew.
Follow @evinevinevin on Instagram. EVÎN has also just announced her new merch. The caps are available from €25. 10% will be donated to the humanitarian non-profit organisation Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê e. V.
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