Over these last few years, Lithuania’s Alina Orlova has never been one to shy away from raw and vulnerable emotion. Regularly adopting this soft and tender approach to everything she does, her tenure to date has been this wildly passionate one that always looks to add something new and distinctive to her ever-evolving repertoire. And with these last few months proving to be some of her more impactful yet, she returns with her latest studio album ‘Nakties Atvirukai’, a collection that continues that varied nature of hers.
Moving with this subtle elegance from track to track, ‘Nakties Atvirukai’ instantly establishes Orlova as the focal point for both her heartfelt prose and spellbinding presence. Delivering this diverse array of vocal styles, everything from soaring emotion to subtle spoken word interludes, the record’s production and flow instantly becomes far more adventurous and unpredictable than we ever could have imagined. Bouncing between these heart-wrenching ballads and more groove-laden sensibilities as it plays, Alina Orlova finds herself in one of her more creative and innovative guises to date here.
It certainly is a hard record to fully define, but one thing for sure is the command and grace Alina Orlova brings to every moment. Creating this mesmerising aura across an enigmatic, eleven-track outing, ‘Nakties Atvirukai’ continues to cement her as one of the more fascinating names currently on the rise.