Rivita’s "Snow Angels": A Sonic Diary of Transformation and Belonging
Rivita's debut album Snow Angels is more like a diary that is written over years and continents than as a collection of songs. The New Delhi-born, Los Angeles-based alt-pop artist has stitched together a 13-track odyssey that bends genre as much as it distorts time. Recorded, written, and mixed by herself, this is an album that's a statement of independence and artistic purpose—except that it's also woven with the voices of over 20 musicians from diverse global hotspots, adding depth and soul to her cinematic soundscape. It is music that's intimate yet expansive, grounded yet celestial.
At the center of this odyssey radiating, Is there anybody out there? —a song composed in Rivita's adolescence and completed as an adult, containing within its lines the dialogue of two selves separated by years. It is a cry and a reply, an echo and an echo. Through its haunting melodies, the song bridges desire with awareness, leading the audience to the threshold space where memory, self, and transformation meet.
It's the kind of song that doesn't just play—it lingers, presenting its question after the final note has stopped. Snow Angels won't remain in one emotional or sonic placement, though. The high-octane beat of Too Close chugs with pop muscle, while Taste Tears and Liquid stretch out with film-scoring textures that approach otherworldliness. Like Someone Else's Arms and Lonely with Someone, they wander, spreading themselves out in glacial pace, providing the listener with space to stay awhile in sorrow, solitude, and those half-whispered truths that follow.
Even the title track, Snow Angels, is a rite of passage—of Rivita's university days in London, chasing dreams from city to city, to learn that the validation she had been searching for from the world was already within herself. Each song is a glimpse into Rivita's evolving universe, but as a whole they are one vision. From a soaring Ukrainian guitar solo on Yet Another Day to funky basslines on Speed Limit, this album burns across boundaries but never loses its warmth. At its emotional core is Rivita herself—a songwriter, producer, and storyteller who has already played stages from BBC London to Netflix screens, and is just beginning to stake out her own territory. With Snow Angels, she offers not just music, but an observation: change is ugly, beautiful, and ultimately, our most human art.
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