{"id":26978,"date":"2025-04-17T22:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=26978"},"modified":"2025-04-17T22:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:19:27","slug":"beauty-in-chaos-hollow-ft-cynthia-isabella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/beauty-in-chaos-hollow-ft-cynthia-isabella\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty In Chaos &#8211; Hollow\u2019 ft. Cynthia Isabella"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Hollow&#8221; begins like a dream, developing slowly and gently, with Cynthia Isabella&#8217;s ethereal vocals flying above an ocean of reverbed gothic guitar from Michael Ciravolo. It&#8217;s a spooky opening that\u00a0remembers the golden days of 4AD Records, with elements of Cocteau Twins and early This Mortal Coil. But, unlike its predecessors, &#8220;Hollow&#8221; doesn&#8217;t just wander around; it goes deeper and heavier as it goes. Yes, there is a dream pop pattern, but the distortion adds heaviness to the song, providing it a shoegaze-meets-darkwave edge that differentiates it. Ciravolo&#8217;s guitar technique combines shimmer and darkness, and at 2:02, a short nevertheless moving guitar solo emerges\u2014a flash of sad beauty. It doesn&#8217;t steal the show, but it&#8217;s essential, providing just sufficient enthusiasm to boost the track without breaking its gentle magic. The tempo turns again at 3:25, when the speed slows and the vocals become quiet, almost whispers, as if secrets being revealed in the dark. This lonely moment is a highlight, allowing the music to breathe before recovering its original form\u2014a type of gothic revival. Cynthia&#8217;s vocals are the track&#8217;s soul: ethereal, passionate, and controlled in all the right aspects. She does not oversing; rather, she &#8220;creeps.&#8221; Ciravolo&#8217;s smooth guitar work wraps around her voice like fog, lending the entire track a majestic, almost religious air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BEAUTY IN CHAOS ft. CYNTHIA ISABELLA - &quot;Hollow&quot; (Crimson Cupid Mix) - OFFICIAL VIDEO\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/27xNpjshRx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo Credit: BIC &amp; Cynthia Isabella photo by Kevin Estrada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beautyinchaosmusic.com\">https:\/\/www.beautyinchaosmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beautyinchaosmusic\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beautyinchaosmusic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beautyinchaosofficial\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beautyinchaosofficial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hollow&#8221; begins like a dream, developing slowly and gently, with Cynthia Isabella&#8217;s ethereal vocals flying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[494,4489,284,436],"class_list":["post-26978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-rock-reviews","category-reviews","tag-beauty-in-chaos","tag-cynthia-isabella","tag-goth","tag-shoegaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26980,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions\/26980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}