With an unparalleled energy and drive, Steph Wells – the powerhouse behind SUMif – has been building a strong following with her unique electro-pop sound. Exploring gender and sexual fluidity in her lyrics, videos and performances, SUMif is exactly the sort of pop force that the music industry needs.
SUMif just released a brand new EP yesterday titled Kinda Real. It’s four really solid pop tracks that deserve to be put on repeat.
There’s a sort of dark charm to her music. Something that’s hard to explain. The songs aren’t inherently sad.
At certain points it feels quite to opposite. SUMif seems to explore the gamut of emotions on this short release. The way that listening to Ellie Goulding or Imogen Heap feels haunting but in a good way, that’s how Kinda Real feels to me.
She explains that this EP is an exploration of a whirlwind summer relationship from start to finish. SUMif writes of the woman she fell in love with last summer,
“I feel like she was exactly who I was meant to meet at exactly that time… I discovered new things about myself and took with me a new understanding of what I value… I decided on these songs for the EP as each one is a snapshot of feeling, to take the listener on the journey with me. For me, being able to release these songs as an EP is like taking the whole story and tying it up with a nice little bow and shipping it off into the universe.”
Listen to Kinda Real below:
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