Live Review: Benji Lewis' debut EP is full of Heart (and Halos)

A piece of electro-pop for you today with BENJI LEWIS' debut EP 'Hearts and Halos.' The four-track piece is full of driving beats, atmospheric electonica and throbbing bass all sat beneath layers of soft vocals.

Benji Lewis is new to the Australian music scene, but it's hard to tell with a start like Hearts and Halos. Perhaps because the EP was written first and foremost as a form of self expression and not with the intent of success like so many artists these days, whatever it is the emotion in Hearts and Halos is far more poignant than a debut EP has any right to be.

The EP takes inspiration from the familiar pain of a new relationship cut short unexpectedly and the darker struggle of Benji Lewis losing his mother to cancer. Of the track 'Night & Day', Benji Lewis cited the song as being “about the love you have for someone who has known and been there for you your whole life.”

The whole EP is about love in some form and both the joy and pain it can bring. Whether it be the fleeting moment of a new relationship over before it really began or the unbreakable love between a parent and child, Benji Lewis manages to express it artfully helped along by a foundation of soaring synth and driving beats.

The Hearts and Halos EP is out now.

Words by Cailey Moroney

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