There is one ritual that humanity performs so automatically that it has long stopped asking questions. The cake is brought out in the dark. The candles are burning. Everyone sings. The birthday person takes air into their lungs, thinks about a wish for a second, exhales. The candles go out. Everyone applauds. No one specifies whether the year was good or bad. The candles on the cake burn equally bright in both cases. It is on this question “what do I have to celebrate it?” that Ava Valianti’s new single ‘Birthday Cake’ is built.

Celebration, Reckoning, Time

-PurpleMistress

This is pop rock with theatrical honesty. This duality between the grand sound and the lightness of the singer’s pop vocals is incredibly captivating. There is space here, there is scope, and at the same time – a personality inside, who asks an uncomfortable question from the stage to all of us, rather than hiding it in a diary. Absolutely recommend!