It'S Over - Vinyle Black Ice

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“Don’t come closer, ’cause I might hurt you, boy / You don’t deserve for me to treat you like a toy.” So sings 28-year-old Southeast London musician Tatyana on ‘It’s Over’, the mournful, hushed, electro-leaning title track from her second album. Written and produced predominantly over the course of summer ‘23, ‘It’s Over’ loosely traces the trajectory of a not-quite-relationship from the previous year. But more than that, it’s an album about modern dating, alienation, and the limits of online existence. If you’ve heard Tatyana’s name before, it’s probably because she released a debut album in 2022, *Treat Me Right*, co-produced with Metronomy’s Joe Mount, a record she describes as being more of a collaboration. For *It’s Over*, Tatyana took control of every aspect of the album’s creation, from production (she co-produced it alongside Mikko Gordon) to artwork to the technology she used throughout. “This record made me technically proficient because I really pushed myself,” Tatyana says. “I figured out a lot of stuff I didn’t know before. In the past, I've allowed others to lead the charge and I'm not doing that anymore.” Born in London, before moving to Russia, the Netherlands, and Singapore in her teens, before studying music at Berklee College in the US – which she did on a full scholarship – then returning to London, Tatyana imbues her music with both deranged technical skill and encyclopedic, far-reaching tastes. But most of all, her sound stems from a pure love of the dancefloor: Robyn, Tirzah, Mica Levi, Jessy Lanza, The Knife. You can hear those dance-pop influences everywhere, from the colourful, synthesised shapes of ‘Control (Ft. Dave Okumu)’ to the crackling analogue hiss of ‘Nothing Is True, Everything Is Possible’. Lean in a little closer, too, and you might pick up the glint of a harp on every single song (she’s played the harp since she was a small child, and has toured extensively as a professional session harpist). “I write about love, I write about romance, these are the things that interest me,” Tatyana says. “That's what this record is about. It's about this relationship that absolutely broke my brain and I had to write about it.”