Taste Test: Illicit Ghost knows she’s undeniably ‘Precious’
The slithering alt-pop firebrand lingers in the mental decay with her stunning new song.
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It’s human nature to spiral out of control. It can be healthy and cathartic to let all the demonic forces loose from their cage. Of course, we eventually must track them down and strap them back in. But for a moment, we can feel every brutal jab they unleash. Tearing through folk music and pop, New York firestorm Illicit Ghost administers a firm, steady sucker punch of her very own, the impending hurricane cresting the horizon. The winds pick up, and her voice cracks and creeps along the piano. “Precious” is laced with an arsenic-based darkness, a dangerous mixture that also contains her most violent of thoughts. “Pull me out of bed / Feed me crazy lies / Tell me I am precious, so precious,” she sings, the words stinging her heart. The images gush from her pores, and they’re drenched in as much pain as they are unmistakable truth. On the back of several other one-off singles, this just might be the apex of her craft to-date.
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