With music that will have you feel like you are floating through a lake under a pleasant spring sky, ‘Perfect Stranger’ by Paul Frazer Clarke featuring vocals from Theia is a complete dream.
The distinct layers in the instrumentation come together like pieces of a puzzle - they gel together in a manner that will make you believe that there could not have been a better arrangement.
The song brings together genres in a brilliantly cohesive manner, as it creates a sound that has R&B elements popping up alongside a groovy yet chill and mellow hiphop rhythm, with shimmering piano progressions and breezy acoustic guitar playing. The song feels like a controlled freefall - a wonderful, luxurious sounding paradox. Layers build upon each other when needed and strip themselves from the main melody when needed, making clear the care and craft that has gone into the creation of the track.
Theia’s vocals feel like an intricate snowflake – delicate, soft, while full of quality. Her vocals might remind you of Billie Eilish, owing to the softness, the delicateness that is the defining factor of her vocal quality.
Lyrically, the song captures the experience of the unsettling, disorienting feeling of falling for a person before you have allowed yourself to give a name or tag to what that feeling might be. The song thus becomes something that we might have experienced ourselves in varying capacities.
With all its gentility, its beautiful delicateness, and astounding musical brilliance, this song will have you addicted to its carefully crafted melodies, rhythms, and its portrayal of what it is to feel that warm, fuzzy emotion before you have named it.