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Glamorous New York-based DJ/Model Dayna Roman shows her class with new single ‘My Love’

Posted on 10 November 2020

Glamorous New York-based DJ/Model Dayna Roman shows her class with new single ‘My Love‘ and this is a supremely delicious spin that is well worth a place on your music playlists. She bends the decks with master precision and shows us what good music sounds like in 2020.

Born in the Middle East and raised in Chicago, Dayna soon moved to LA and from there everything changed. After signing to the prestigious Wilhelmina modelling agency, she soon got into DJ-ing and enrolled in Scratch Academy. The thirst to be best has kept her focused and the results are quite tremendous.

With a breathlessly gorgeous beat, this is a gritty track that features such scrumptious vocals to wake you out of your current grumpy mood thanks to current times. This is a dance floor slider if there ever was one and I’m not talking about the burger either. There is so much to like here, the rhythm of the track is made with such quality and my feet can’t stop tapping. I imaging waving at Dayna while she plays live, screaming at the top of my lunge too to show appreciation for this excellent EDM track with so many layers that unzips beautifully in my ears.

A slump-buster if there ever was one, the classy cool DJ/Model Dayna Roman has brought us an absolute ripper here and ‘My Love‘ will surely cheer you up and remind you that real love is possible. Turn your phone off, get to a proper speaker and dial that volume up. You are welcome.

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Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

New Music Friday: Lily Oakes “Duality”

Posted on 13 October 2017

Duality feels like the sort of song that people say, “they don’t make them like that anymore.” Not that it feels retro or stylistically outdated, it is just something in its make up, its integrity, its perfect generic splicing which marks it out as a sound apart from the main pack of the modern musical race. There is an inherent soulfulness and rhythmic groove, it is driven when it needs to make a point, soothing when it wants to seduce. It also works in, if not the dark corners of pop, then certainly amongst the shadowed and exploratory fringes.

And pop it is, but as far from the usual chart fare as you are likely to find. Yet when you hold up the pop yardstick to Duality it ticks all the right boxes. Accessible, clever, memorable, dynamic, emotive (bordering on brooding) and showing more of the rock and blues roots, to which all modern pop owes its living, than most cares to expose. Maybe this isn’t a reflection of what pop used to be but a template for its possible future. The fact that Lily Oakes has a scant on-line presence normally only reserved for winners of The Voice, only adds to the mystery.