SINGLE REVIEW: ALVINOS ZAVLIS “OUTTA MY HEAD”
“If I sleep, I’ll get up 3 am, shout out, scream ‘get out of my head.’” Albinos Zalvis
When the clock points to 3 am, the world shifts into a fluid-like surreality—fragility in complete darkness surrounded by silence. The airy, cloudy shadows float through spaces. The striking synth chords skip a beat from time to time on the edge of breaking down.
“In my room by myself, trying to paint over her.”
Alvinos Zalvis is a UK-based visual artist and an experimental hip-hop music producer. Designed by the artist himself, the cover art features a person burying his face into a largely shaped pillow in a room surrounded by all sorts of thoughts, hallucinated and random. The painting was tainted with water stains and intentionally strayed colors.
Alvinos Zavlis’s “Outta My Head” is a sonic portrait of frustration and mental struggle revolving around loss and unfulfilled love. When the color palettes are tainted and messed up into mud; when the familiar smile sneaks into your dream; when no matter how much you wanted to get better and feel better, the mind keeps circling back to the beginning...till the fear of closing your eyes overcome exhaustion in the deadly silence.
In the multifaceted sonic space brimmed with finely flakes of noise, smog creeps from the lowest, blocking the vision. Followed by a temporary pause was the emotional release. Heavy-hitting beats portray the intensity of the mental struggle, punching through the sonic walls in flashing lights.
