Lyrically, Self Defense covers some timeless territory, examining the actions of your younger self through older eyes and coming to terms with the realities of first love with the benefit of experience and hindsight. But just because it is a common subject doesn’t mean that you can’t make it your own, and this examination of the human condition from the point of view of the human that Kayla Oh knows best, is both universally relatable and uniquely personal.
But musically, we are in new territory, well, contemporary at least, as Kayla mines that seam that runs between pop and folk, the past and present, digital and analogue, youth and adulthood.
Stunning.
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