Daniel Levi

About

" A hooky variety of contemporary pop and r&b "

We’ve come to expect a certain level of hookiness from Daniel Levi, and this is what we get, time after time. From the uplifting single ‘Burning Lights’ from back in 2015 to the ‘On & On’ collab single with local Estonian EDM stars Cartoon (which racked up over 840 million plays across Spotify and YouTube) and 2020’s funky earworm ‘Uncle John’, the American/ Estonian artist has made a good use of his talents – and his four-piece band’s, as well – to play with the sonic boundaries of whatever pop scene he finds himself in. Maybe that’s the reason the first song of his anticipated album ‘14/02‘, out in mid-October 2023, is titled ‘Down For Anything’.

Much of Daniel Levi’s style is a sharply modernized pop/rock spin on Motown soul and 70s funk, bringing to mind artists like Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake, but without any make-a-turn-and-strike-a-pose gestures. And that’s good. ‘14/02’ is a serotonin-pumping album, filled with great pop hooks with one exception, ‘River’, a slow-paced ballad that adds to the sonic variety (and proves how technically skilled a vocalist he is). If you want smooth falsettos (‘Talk’), light funk pop songs (‘Clown Around’), groovy production techniques (‘Getaway’) and simple lyrics about modern relationships (“Walking around with this smile/ You got me feeling like curfew after nine” – ‘Honey’) then this album delivers.