Alexia Vegas’s latest single is a piece of rocking, slow, and foreboding electronica that features an impassioned vocal performance that heaves between soulful, agonized yells, and hushed, understated lulls, resulting in a dynamic sound that pays with multiple plays.
Based in New York, Alexia Vegas is a singer-songwriter whose sound on her latest single, titled Your Love is Like a Slow Disease, can be described as crisp, synth-based electronica, with haunting melodies, an innate sense of gravity to the singing, and a general air for drama. The song tells the age-old story of a toxic relationship that suffocates and restrains. Delivered with restrain, the verses are relatively quiet and intoxicating, with looming synth melodies and thick drones, backing Alexia’s impassioned and weighty delivery, before the chorus explodes.
The choruses are a different story altogether. With the proper introduction of a meaty-sounding drum part, the vocal part reaches soaring heights, as multiples of Alexia’s part populate the air behind her, the output is equally powerful and gut-wrenching.
Alexia Vegas’s latest single might be simplistic in concept, but what it may lack in outside-the-box ideas is more than made up for with drama, intention, and execution. Your Love is Like a Slow Disease is a song that’s rich musically and lyrically, packed with drama and grandeur.