Lina Kay - 'Best Face'

LA-based indie-pop singer-songwriter Lina Kay puts on her ‘Best Face’ for her debut single.

’Best Face’ is the debut single from Lina Kay who has created a song that, in terms of contemporaries, sits nicely between Billie Eilish and Julien Baker. As a lyric-led song, ‘Best Face’ is an intimate and atmospheric offering where Kay’s vocal feels defeated as she addresses the mistakes she has made, divulging “self hate is such a chore”. The ruinous feeling to the atmosphere of the song is also exemplified through swirling and disoriented textures that reminded me a lot of the whole ethos Katy Rose was working with on her single, ‘Lemon’.

Despite its downtrodden melancholia, there’s so much beauty and emotion to Kay’s vocal, and' it’s really impressive how the track’s distorted arrangements cry out like hostile warnings reminders of self-inflicted pains. What’s most endearing about Lina Kay is the fine line she is walking between making music with a pop pull whilst debuting a raw, alternative atmosphere that cuts like a knife, only intensifying the sadness and self destructive confessional lamented within the lyrical theme.

“Best Face embodies the unfortunate realization of self-destructive mannerisms. A lot of us have a tendency to want what we can’t have, and this song is a plea to cling on to our toxic habits, even though they’re positively illogical”.

Words of Karla Harris

Listen to ‘Best Face’ on Spotify, here.