Album Review – Plain to See by Onira (2024) (Self Released)
Onira first tickled our aural senses in May 2022 with their three-track debut Demos EP (only Distractions makes the cut here). The dreamy, jangly dream pop of this Plain To See debut album has benefited from a rejuvenation of sound and careful production excellence.
Luster joins the glorious opening triple salvo of Tree-lined, Meadow, and the title track, to combine a jangly dream-pop sweetness and bruised noise-pop with a subtle shoegaze core, with Grecia Chavez’s innocent, fey vocal sweetness, ensuring that the aesthetic of this foursome remains firmly rooted in the mid-2000s style of twee-pop.
Falling Flat, Distractions, and Omniscient reduce the noise and gaze to a whisper, which in turn accentuates the dreamy, jangled riffs to provide a similar languid, sumptuous indie-pop edge to that of the Little Miss Echo and Cinema Lumiere sound.
This is a superb debut album from an act who can juxtapose layers of aural textures with a maturity that is well beyond their musical years.
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