indie underrated

Neve Bowen has a versatile passionate vocal delivery that gets under your skin.  She blesses that talent with an addictive melodic sensibility.  It’s heard in the chorus section of her new single Lifeline.  It’s the first big payoff heard on her new EP, with Lifeline serving as the title track among four distinct radio ready breakthroughs.  She caps off the EP with an acoustic version of her signature song.  To get to that final track you’ll experience an imaginative indie pop journey, with all four songs representing the unique stylistic sonic worlds of Neve Bowen.  

Bowen elegantly uses production to dress the sonic atmosphere on her single Deep Blue Ocean.  “Please take me now.”  She pleads with a conjured hurt that plays to your savior complex.  There’ a dark underlayer, it brings elegant contrast to her pop inspired instincts.  Deep Blue Ocean evolves into a big stadium ready breakout after the second chorus.  It brings an element of Florence and the Machine to match her nostalgic compositional flair.  

Collectively smashing, our favorite moment might be Song For Anna.  It has some abstract indie influence within a Fleetwood Mac aura.  Neve leans into her Nicks style vibrato, bringing vulnerable emotion to match her innate talent.  

The sincerity rises to a fever pitch on the immersive dreamy gem Haunting Sound of Love.  It blends an influence of the aforementioned Fleetwood Mac with a vibe akin to Clairo or Bon Iver.  The sparse arrangement offers for an intimate in concert moment. 

Bowen is not afraid to put herself out there as an artist.  It’s her secret weapon, and a detail that will lend to her adoration.  The emerging 19 year old songwriter admits that these works were penned at a low point in 2022.  Dig into all of Lifeline and say you heard her first.  Neve Bowen is an artist to watch.