{"id":56527,"date":"2019-10-18T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=56527"},"modified":"2019-10-18T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:18:23","slug":"nya-releases-new-ep-hold-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/10\/nya-releases-new-ep-hold-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Nya Releases New EP, &#8216;Hold On&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?s=NYA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYA<\/a>s third EP, &#8216;Hold On&#8217;, pulls no punches as she launches into the four tracks with her sublime vocals dipping in and out of RnB, pop, rock, and even a little bit of country.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stripped back and acoustic, NYAs vocals are allowed to shine, and aren&#8217;t at all overpowered by the scant instrumentals. She beguiles and caresses us with her voice, all while sharing lyrics which can at times be darkly humorous &#8211; such as in track 3, &#8216;Love You To Death&#8217;, in which she sings to her new love, who she has, &#8220;Misery&#8221; style, trapped in his doom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In describing her latest EP, NYA says,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I wrote the Hold On EP after falling in and out of love for the first time; so I wanted these songs about obsession, heartbreak, and growth to be really stripped down and honest. To me, this acoustic EP captures how I came to know myself better through first love and first heartbreak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s a lot on this record that makes us feel as though she&#8217;s singing to us directly. There&#8217;s no overbearing orchestrals, it&#8217;s just pulled back to the barest of acoustic bones alongside NYAs voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Title track and opener &#8216;Hold On&#8217; refuses to hold onto any particular genre, and the same can be said for &#8216;Reconciliation&#8217;, which follows; the songs bend genres and dart between pop, soul, and tease us as to whom she most reminds us; we&#8217;re thinking Alicia Keys, but then, there&#8217;s a bit of Kate Bush, Katie Melua&#8230;basically it&#8217;s all just NYA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EP closer &#8216;Electric&#8217; does what all good records should, and leaves us wanting for more. There&#8217;s something of a Motown feel to the song, not modern Motown, but that of the old school girl group singers &#8211; maybe NYA reminds us a little bit of Diana Ross as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find NYA online on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ThisIsNya.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>. You can listen to &#8216;Hold On&#8217; here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HOLD ON by Thisisnya - Official\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F870659051&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640&#038;secret_token=s-sqwW0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYAs third EP, &#8216;Hold On&#8217;, pulls no punches as she launches into the four tracks with her sublime vocals dipping in and out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21447,7,21454,9,12133,21445],"tags":[616,286,2001,11720,939,77,11211,226,240,116,18621,78,304],"class_list":["post-56527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep-reviews","category-music","category-new-eps","category-new-releases","category-news","category-reviews","tag-country","tag-ep","tag-hold-on","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-new-ep","tag-new-release","tag-nya","tag-pop","tag-rb","tag-review","tag-rnb-2","tag-singer","tag-songwriter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-eHJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39843,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/08\/nya-southland-ep\/","url_meta":{"origin":56527,"position":0},"title":"NYA &#8211; &#8216;SOUTHLAND&#8217; EP","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"30\/08\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We've written about NYA before with her releases 'Let Go' and 'Mania' last year. 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