Cashavelly’s new single, “More Than God” is a beautifully crafted song that grabs your attention from the very first note. The song’s lyrics are powerful and full of emotion, while the chorus brings an incredible surge of energy that stays with you long after the music ends. Cashavelly’s voice is both captivating and unique with her vocals weaving seamlessly through the well-produced sound.
The music video is outstanding with smart direction and production that perfectly complements the mood of the song. The creativity and depth of Cashavelly’s work really shine through here, offering listeners an enjoyable and powerful experience. Every aspect of the song feels purposeful, from the lyrical content to the overall sound and it’s clear that a lot of thought went into its creation.
“More Than God” doesn’t just tell a story, it challenges listeners to reflect on their own inner struggles, making it a deeply meaningful song. The production by David Wimbish is polished and elevates the song’s emotional impact even further. The song is powerful and has a way of pulling you in and making you think, while still delivering an engaging and uplifting sound. Cashavelly’s voice is unique and we found ourselves humming the chorus long after the song ended. This is definitely a track that will leave an impression.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Cashavelly calls the bluff of a societal narrative that seeks to diminish women with age, knowing they often find their full power at the moment they’re written off. Her substantive pop music defies, provokes, and benevolently empathizes, convincing all who listen that the rebirth of a new world is not only possible, but already underway. Her latest album, Meditation Through Gunfire, is a bold manifesto, weaving together threads of unflinching personal inquiry, societal critique, and urgent philosophical defiance.
Cashavelly’s journey is a tapestry of transformation. Beginning as a ballet prodigy, her path twisted through the tutelage of legendary dancers, a debilitating spinal injury, and a reawakening into the world of music and writing. After an encounter with the iconic novelist Kurt Vonnegut, she realized her artistic path was too serious to take entirely seriously, yet it propelled her onto an unexpected path that birthed her into a visionary maverick.
Her early albums, “The Kingdom Belongs to a Child” (2015) and “Hunger” (2018), stood out in a crowded field, earning awards and accolades, for their haunting melodies, evocative lyrics, and dissent of America’s habit for hypocrisy and exploitation. But it was in her next album and award-winning feature film “Metamorphosis” (2021) where she would confront the world with questions that to answer would upend our way of life.
“Meditation through Gunfire” is that answer. The album is a mix of the emotional rollercoaster of Fleetwood Mac, the punk poetry of Patti Smith, and the heart, swagger, and universality of powerful pop queens like Tori Amos and Fiona Apple. It’s also a bold philosophical salvo of an equally loving and emphatic revolutionary, who is unable to do things by halves.
Each song is a node in a vast web of ideas, challenging listeners to confront their complicity, their pain, and the potential—which creates the responsibility—for a cathartic and ongoing inner and outer reckoning. From the stark and compassionate self-interrogation of “More than God” to the anthemic survivor’s strut of “The Queen,” she challenges listeners to confront their foundational fears and shake their psychological shackles. “The Fire” explores the erotic and spiritual as a synesthetic swirl of inseparable forces, while “Royal Blue” and “Sacred Color” confront the fractal indignities society fires at women. The title track reveals how the shrapnel from these attacks diminishes everything it touches, including the earth itself.
It’s all made irresistible by the wise, fiery candor of Cashavelly’s voice and the timeless, often devastating melodies of her songs. Her sound is soulful, seasoned, tender, and slyly galvanizing—qualities that hold together a remarkably diverse selection of songs. Songs like “Be My Echo” and “Your Clue” highlight her lyrical prowess, while “Lucky Duck” and “Oyster” showcase her ability to blend highs and lows, as well as vulnerability and defiance.
Her creative process is as rigorous as it is reverent and playful. Cashavelly journals daily, weaving her raw thoughts into lyrics that reverberate into the nuanced actions of a leader. She gathers women locally and globally through her initiative, The Cashavelly Collective, where she empowers women to explore their inner inflammatory insights, amplify their voices, and trust in their innate miracle-working. For her, a new world in which women leaders thrive in equal measure has already begun.
Cashavelly arrives not a moment too soon, and she’s made for it. She makes pop music for inciting a movement, and she means every minute of it. Join the soul-rending singalongs of salacious transformation on this timely and timeless record.
