JVNA has released Violet Genesis, a five-track EP out now via her own Violet Arrow imprint.For fans who have followed the DJ, producer and singer-songwriter since the beginning, the project will feel like a homecoming.
JVNA built her name on melodic bass rooted in anime and video game soundtracks, a sound she spent years expanding across different stylistic territories before returning to it on Violet Genesis.“This EP is me going back to where it all started,” JVNA said in a statement.
“There was a sound that was just purely me: hopeful, ethereal, nostalgic.Heavy sound design, melodic bass, cinematic, anime OST and video game score inspired.
That’s where JVNA began, and that’s where this album lives.It’s me honoring where I started from while showing everything I’ve become.” JVNA writes, produces, sings and releases everything herself, a practice she has maintained since her debut album, 2021’s Hope In Chaos.
Violet Genesis follows suit through a shape-shifting collection of tracks held together by her distinctive vocals and raw emotional depth.Opener ‘Digital Ghost’ floats through an airy and otherworldly arrangement, plunging us headlong into cinematic drops with vocal chops slicing through the mix.
‘Above You’ has more force, her soulful vocal performance floating atop a melodic dubstep drop before JVNA brings us home with a pumping techno sequence.‘Ephemeral’ slows everything down, opening with smooth piano and a breathy, haunting vocal that drifts through the track as if in freefall.
‘Hyperbloom’ steadies the ship, its deep bass anchoring a brighter, more grounded vocal performance.The EP then closes with ‘Gravity,’ a euphoric track that mutates from midtempo to frenetic drum & bass.
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