Kavi, the project of the multi-talented Karvesh Pillai, is celebrating the release of his debut EP KRUSHED!
For Kavi, revealing his multi-faceted world through KRUSHED! comes in the wake of making sense of his own socialisation and identity to debut KLUBKAVI, a free-flowing exploration of pure escapism.
With the new release release, Pillai transposes his electronic-pop influences in Shygirl, Arca, Charli XCX and more against the transcendent euphoria of club spaces, threaded through the lifecycle of a world-bending crush.
Kavi explores how crushes form, crinkle and the inevitable crumble of infatuation on tracks SPORTSCAR (the ‘what if’ stage), D-TRIPLE-U (desperation) and REALITY TV (gut wrenching obsession) with focus track SUPERNOVA charting their formation.
In his own words, Kavi reveals “I wanted SUPERNOVA to sound like the genesis of a crush – with the track’s opening vocals backdropped by a glowing haze of synth pads, before swelling into an explosion of all-consuming euphoria.”
“Choosing to explore that concept of genesis via the theme of space felt right, in giving me the chance to communicate that soaring, floaty initial sensation of a crush, while keeping with that intergalactic, futuristic sound I wanted to achieve with the overall EP.”
“Arriving before darker lyricism later in the project, it was satisfying to play with foreshadowing too: despite all their beautiful, blazing glory, supernovas are still just dying stars.”
KRUSHED! is out now
Image: Khushi Patil
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