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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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Maybe it's the bands count in, maybe it’s the first lyric ‘I can give you something to believe in’ or maybe it's the nostalgic, soulful vocal stacks in the chorus and bridge that makes LOONY’s (Kira Huszar) new single, “Nothing Else Feels The Same” feels like a warm, familiar blanket, safely wrapped around your memories.
“Man, this song has lived so many lives!” LOONY explains. “It’s gone through so many different versions over the last year or so until it finally felt right. Ultimately, it was a live floor studio session that just fit it best, with some of my favourite musicians in Toronto pulling up. This is a song that I’ve always wanted to make - something simple but true, overtop a bed of organic sound.
“Nothing Else Feels The Same” is a true team effort, with over 10 sonic contributors (brass section, primarily) the song contains the most collaborative effort for LOONY yet. Harkening back to LOONY’s most soulful work, the song exists in the same organic musical vein as raw, either side and “Some Kinda Love”. Fans of Kira Huszar’s most traditional work will love the new single for a long time to come.
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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.