Intimate, soft yet raw, Borka Balogh just released her new EP Disposable and impresses with some dreamlike atmospheres. Review.
DISPOSABLE – BORKA BALOGH
Deeply intimate, Borka Balogh’s new EP, Disposable, goes beyond exploring her traumas. It’s an invitation to think about them differently, through a new prism. To achieve this, Hungarian artists, now based in the Netherlands, decided to start it all with a delicate and sweet guitar on Disposable. A couple of electric riffs darken the whole picture and get wonderful nuances in as the vocals keep their luminous tone. If the lyrics are honest, brutally so sometimes, matching their powerful emotional charge, Borka Balogh also breathes a good amount of gentleness into them.
By reaching wider to electro sounds on Harvest, Borka Balogh enhances the contrast between theme and form. She goes forward, sharing hardships but never letting herself completely wither. On Foolish, piano and guitar join forces to highlight the dreamy potential of her vocals. It’s an embrace, a hopeful message that melts tension without ever ignoring or erasing the hurt. With some rock passages, without them being too violent, and supported by her band, Borka Balogh is revealing here a healthy and cathartic energy.
That energy is found in the heartbreaking Bad Dream. It’s a song starting with the same combination of delicacy and raw lyrics found in others. The melancholy and pain are gripping, yet it also shows the artist’s great resilience in its second part. Patterns, which ends this record, has a similar atmosphere and progression. It’s a smart use of diverse influences into a clear indie pop, too. Overall, Disposable by Borka Balogh is a moving EP. It’s the story of healing traumas – hers, yours, ours – slowly, but surely.
