Minko tightened the thread between classical precision and future-pop romanticism in her new single, ‘Circle of Fifths’, a track that redraws the shape of pop itself. Slated to feature on her debut LP Lemon Psyche, which will flavour the airwaves from May 29th, this release is a neo-pop fever dream that glides through time as effortlessly as you flick through your Instagram feed.
Baroque textures ripple through the track as arcane folk nuances are woven into orchestral pop motifs that deliberately reject the tyranny of musical chronology. Minko delivers a lyrical panorama soaked in imagery, where nostalgia lives unanchored to any fixed point in history. Instead, it finds a surrealist stronghold—an aural utopia where freedom reigns and art exists as a sovereign state, ruled by intuition rather than industry.
Raised by the wilds of the Cornish landscape and shaped by a history of sonic exploration—including scoring the BFI-backed Dog Years, winning Cornwall’s national songwriting competition with the Cornish-language single Kan an Tewyn, and being plucked for airplay by BBC Radio 3 and 6 Music—Minko’s experimentalism is no accident. Her DIY ethos and her collaborations with Steven Havenhand (ex-Pulp) channel a rare artistic clarity. ‘Circle of Fifths’ proves she doesn’t flirt with genre—she reconfigures it through a kaleidoscope of melodic surrealism.
Circle of Fifths is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Bandcamp.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
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