Tag: Devin Nash

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Baltimore’s Devin Nash Shares Swaggering and Strutting “Sounds Like Pain”

Devin Nash is a Baltimore-born and-based singer/songwriter and musician, who quickly established a sound that blends contemporary R&B and 80s synth pop with the release of his full-length debut, 2016’s Her. 

Her achieved commercial success with the album’s songs appearing on VH1’s Black Ink Crew Chicago and MTV’s Teen Mom — and he performed at the BET Awards. 

The Charm City-based artist released his latest EP Sounds Like Pain last month. “It is a soundtrack centered around love, relationships and heartbreak,” Nash explains.

EP single, title track and opening track “Sounds Like Pain” is a slickly produced, strutting bop anchored around a sinuous bass line, skittering cowbell-driven beats, atmospheric synths that serve as a lush bed for Nash’s yearning delivery singing lyrics about a love interest, who quickly proves to be cold-hearted and cruel — for no particular reason. But underneath the heartache are moments of self-reflection and pride, in which the song’s narrator realizes “Wait, what the fuck am I doing?”

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

New Audio: Baltimore’s Devin Nash Shares a Sultry Club Banger

Devin Nash is a Baltimore-born and-based singer/songwriter and musician, who quickly established a sound that blends contemporary R&B and 80s synth pop with the release of his full-length debut, 2016’s Her.

Her achieved commercial success with the album’s songs appearing on VH1’s Black Ink Crew Chicago and MTV’s Teen Mom — and he performed at the BET Awards.

Nash’s forthcoming EP Pretty.Sexy.Love reportedly features material that channels Frank Ocean, Miguel and others, while giving listeners “a genuine outside-the-box soul transformation” — with a soulful sophistication. The EP’s latest single “Swayze” is a sleek, club friendly banger featuring glistening synth arpeggios, skittering beats paired with the Charm City-based artist’s soulful delivery and uncanny knack for a catchy hook. While seemingly channeling Usher, Miguel, Frank Ocean and Steven A. Clark‘s Fornication Under Consent of the King, “Swayze,” tells a story about a guy who fell for the wrong girl and having a difficult time moving past it — to the point that he’s obsessed with both the girl and the heartbreak as a result. Lyrically, the song seems rooted in the specificity of lived-in experience.