Tiny Desk Live performance : NPR

For these of us (like me) who put on the time period “chronically on-line” like a badge of honor, PinkPantheress‘ world is our the whole lot. Once we shut our eyes, her shiny voice and Y2K nostalgia is a consolation. With a single curler in her bangs and the purse she’s by no means with out, PinkPantheress has grow to be our soundtrack, imaginative and prescient board and information.

For this set, the as soon as nameless dance-pop star sheds the digital sounds that we all know her for; to our full delight, her voice is simply as shiny and her presence simply as entrancing in these new preparations. Wearing her signature tartan (with matching tea pot), PinkPantheress’ band expands her sound, swapping the glitched-out samples in “Woman Like Me” for heavier guitar riffs. She shapes the moments that we crave in songs like “Ache” and “Unlawful” as softer, jazzier ones.

As she performs, she nonchalantly cycles via the devices laid out earlier than her: some harmonica right here, a little bit of cowbell there, chimes a couple of times. Her comedic timing is deadpan, but exact — a reminder of why followers obsess over her digital footprint. It is all the time a present when artists reimagine their discography alongside us on the Desk. PinkPantheress dives into this problem, but maintains her magnetic aura, which is simply another excuse we nonetheless can not seem to look away.

SET LIST

• “Drawn to You”
• “Ache”
• “Break It Off”
• “Unlawful”
• “Woman Like Me”
• “The aisle”
• “Ardour”
• “Tonight”

MUSICIANS

• PinkPantheress: vocals, harmonica, percussion 
• Lisa Remar: keys
• Joe Lesher-Liao: DJ
• Sofia D’Angelo: guitar, background vocals
• Jaleacia “Queen Drums” Harris: drums
• Tina Chau Le: keys, guitar, background vocals
• Rani Adi: bass

TINY DESK TEAM

• Producer: Dora Levite
• Director/Editor: Maia Stern
• Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
• Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
• Videographers: Maia Stern, Sofia Seidel, Michael Zamora, Alanté Serene
• Audio Engineer: Hannah Gluvna
• Manufacturing Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
• Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
• Sequence Editor: Lars Gotrich
• Tiny Desk Crew: Kara Body, Joshua Bryant
• Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
• Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton