Top Shelf With Platonica Erotica

London-based Platonica Erotica has spent 2021 unleashing her debut singles unto the world. Her songwriting draws upon influences from Jonathan Richman, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Peggy Lee, Lou Reed, and the adolescent drama of The Shangri-Las. She expertly ricochets from the sweet to the vicious over lush choral harmonies and pea-sweet bedroom production. Both parents being musical theatre actors, Hayden formatively remembers listening to rehearsals and her inspiration comes predominantly from ‘the banality of suburban America, where I grew up, how beautiful and boring and performative it is’. With a brooding beauty in her voice akin to Lana Del Rey, but with a heavy dose of self-awareness and knife-edge wit, Platonica Erotica’s world is seductively romantic and sophisticated. No other artist can make you feel so enamoured and yet so victimised.