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"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
"I Love That LOONY, this is sure to make waves" - Elton John
"taps into the restless but relatable flutters of first love." - Refinery29
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Today, Scarborough blue collared R&B / soul-singer LOONY, aka, Kira Huszar, shares her new single “A Good Night” which follows this year’s previous single, “Old Friends”, and is the second song in a surprising succession of new moments from LOONY, doubling down on the breaking of over a year of musical silence.
Working together with Grammy Award nominated collaborators Akeel Henry (Jasmine Sullivan, John Legend) and Adam Pondang, the song begins with a traditionally LOONY sounding harmony stack, ominous and haunting with a barely noticeable vocal sample quietly sitting in the background. After a quick 8 bars we shift into a slappy guitar based loop that excels within its restrain, the restrain being what truly allows LOONY’s heartfelt lyrics and supernatural vocal ability to shine.
Contextually, LOONY muses “I’ve definitely ruined what was supposed to be a good night before, because I wasn’t willing to let something go. I had questions that needed answering, or feelings I had to get off my chest. It’s not always worth it, you definitely end up being the villain. But I can’t really pretend like everything’s cool if it’s not.
“This song itself came together quickly - ‘Akeel, Adam and I were out at this little cottage in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, scream-singing this song. We were kinda loopy and over-tired and we had so much fun just playing with a bunch of random objects to create different textures. We mic'd a leaf at one point. It somehow ended up staying in the song.”
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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 theater 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.