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“I’m a huge fan, as I am of LOONY, a fantastic artist, I love her” - Elton John (Rocket Hour - Sep 30, 23)
"wistful and silky smooth" - The FADER
"one of the artists leading Canada’s new class of R&B singers." - Complex
"Blending retro soul inflections and moody grooves with punchy pop synths" - The Line Of Best Fit
"taps into the restless but relatable flutters of first love." - Refinery29
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Today, LOONY is sharing the new single, “Counting Thunder”, possibly her most outright experimental track to date, also happens to be the most hard hitting. Written together with Grammy Award nominated collaborators Akeel Henry (Jasmine Sullivan, John Legend) and Adam Pondang, and Dan Farber, “‘Counting Thunder’ is waiting for the storm to hit,” says LOONY. “You feel it coming before you even see it, because you’re always expecting it, constantly trying to calculate its proximity to you. You’re trying to control it, get it over with, and prevent yourself from getting hurt.
“I have a lot of anxiety, especially in relationships, and I think especially once you go through trauma you’re just waiting for the next bad thing to happen. But that’s just in all of life, in general. Things are always happening, and we apply meaning to it - it’s all random chaos and we all try to act so big and tough but we’re literally all afraid, all the time, and working so hard to try to control things. And I don’t know, it’s kind of funny, and tragic, and at the time I was writing it, it felt like such a personal song but now I don’t think it is. I think it’s one of my favourites, though.”
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MORE ABOUT LOONY
LOONY has already gained fans at FADER, Complex, Line of Best Fit and more for her lush, earnest voice; she's also been featured on lauded Apple and Spotify curated playlists alike. There's a method to Kira Huszar’s madness. From the outset of her 2018 debut EP, PART 1, through the 25 million+ streamed JOYRiDE and most recent, soft thing, LOONY has been offering listeners revelatory, neo-soul-inflected pieces of her reality.
LISTEN TO LOONY CHAT WITH CBC q ABOUT PREVIOUS SINGLE “OLD FRIENDS” HERE
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LOONY has come a long way from skipping musical theatre classes in high school to make mixtapes in her basement: Working with Adam Pondang and Noah ‘40’ Shebib protege Akeel Henry (Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, Jazmine Sullivan) on soft thing, LOONY summons musical shades of gospel, jazz, hip hop, and R&B, as on “faceless” and “raw,” which recall early Erykah Badu, The Roots and peak-era D’Angelo in both their enigmatic funkiness and Huszar’s poignant mastery of vocal inflection. At its core, the quarantine-made EP was a diligent exploration of love in many forms, from the euphoric expectation of flirtation to the inextricable hope for a grandparent to stay safe in the midst of a global pandemic. With the release of "Old Friends" we enter into a new chapter of her inextinguishable spirit and verve for finding the beauty in being vulnerable. There's much more on the horizon for LOONY this year.