Iiris soars in her glistening return "Iridescent Love"

21 September 2015, 09:45 | Written by John Bell

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After winning Female Artist of the Year in her home country of Estonia two years ago, London-dwelling Iiris has been pricking ears with her eclectic songwriting style —from chart-worthy synth-pop to sophisticated piano ballads— and a voice that is at once innocent and entirely powerful. No surprise, then, that her new single “Iridescent Love”, the first from forthcoming EP Hope, has gone down a storm on the blogosphere. It has much more of a nuanced and airier quality to it than older material, and as such it’s our Song Of The Day.

In “Iridescent Love”, Iiris reflects on how past and futures can be intertwined with location: "All of these streets / with the shadows of the ones we’ve loved / and the hopes that we go for". Specifically, the track's video places a peripatetic Iiris directly in the "Blue morn London" she sings about, her new home. But as the song takes a turn and bursts ecstatically into its climax, a soaring trance-like synth seems to lift the young singer up as she forgets the past ("I was homeless / caressed by the hands of God") and opens up to the future as she bathes in the brightness of her lover.

Indeed, her love’s iridescence is reflected in the song’s texture, layered by gentle synths and kissed by a host of vibrations which gild it in a brilliant sheen. It’s a simple message, but beautiful at that.

“Iridescent Love” is available now via Hand In Hive.