Tamera sets her boundaries with inspired finesse and soulful cascading vocals on “Don’t Phone”

Strikingly accomplished in its musicianship, “Don’t Phone” not only builds upon the credibility Tamera earned with her debut release “Romeo”, it steps it up to the next level. She explores the difficult subject of insecurities in relationships, their toxic effect, and the need to walk away with sensitivity and grace, and without judgement or blame; and in doing so, demonstrates how accomplished a songwriter and artist she's becoming in such a short space of time.

“I wrote ‘Don’t Phone’ about a situation I was in with someone where it eventually became almost impossible to communicate at the hands of insecurity and doubt,” says Tamera, “so I had to take a step back and not talk to them until we got better at speaking.”

Tamera's cascading vocals give way to sudden but sublime surges of soulful riff and melody, the arrangement moving in bassy shudders as dry beats drop against metallic percussive flick and snap. The compellingly understated instrumentation works a subtle, contrasting timbre, as great rising tides of reverse-pitch swell left and right, fizzing like an amplifying electrical current.

The track shifts from a restless state of flux, painted at odds with itself, as hazy vocal shards and percussive loops coil and ricochet. Tamera works her vocal to reflect the changing seasons of the instrumentation; walking the beat in a frustrated conversation, only to play off the sudden but sublime bursts of soulful harmony in lyrical and vocal expression of the inevitable need to move, her voice lifting in a jazzy shimmer of pitch.