Premiere: Esbie Fonte, ‘Veins’

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Esbie Fonte
Esbie Fonte

Esbie Fonte makes synth-pop for funereal dream sequences that dissolve from vivid and confrontational to dark and mysterious. She likens her immersive new single “Veins” to “holding a mirror up to your soul and being honest about the reflection staring back at you,” but it’s clear that such harsh introspection doesn’t always yield the rosiest of results.

The glitchy, almost claustrophobic production and the doubled vocals in “Veins” suggest that the songwriter is attuned to both Fontes — the one staring into the mirror and the one staring back. “I am afraid of my own skeletons / I’m a shaking bag of bones / Furthest thing from whole,” she sings over a melody drunk on self-doubt.

The self-produced “Veins” is the second single off the Bay Area-reared songwriter’s forthcoming “Cemetery Drive” EP, following the ghostly “Rosie,” released last month.

||| Stream: “Veins”

||| Also: Stream “Rosie” and “Pico & Westwood”

||| Previously: “Aces High”