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For Your Validation
2025 EP by Alessi Rose From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For Your Validation is the second extended play (EP) by English singer-songwriter Alessi Rose. Released on 17 January 2025 by AWAL and spanning six tracks, the EP was trailed by five singles including "Oh My", "Imsochillandcool", "Pretty World", and "Start All Over" and featured writing and production contributions from Tommy Baxter, Audrey Hobert, and Charlie Hugall. The EP was promoted by a tour, which sold out within ten minutes, and received positive critical reception.
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Rose recorded For Your Validation between January and June 2024[1] and wrote it about the symptoms of her OCD,[2] having also written her first EP – 2024's Rumination As Ritual[3] – about her condition.[2] On 16 September that year, she released the lead single "Oh My", an alt-pop track[4] she co-wrote with its producer Tommy Baxter.[5] Released alongside a video directed by Phoebe Lettice Thompson, the track was written about starting to love someone but feeling insecure and wanting to suit a partner exactly.[6] Dork rated the track as the 92nd best of the year, with Dan Harrison writing that the track "sways into your consciousness with the confidence of someone who knows they're about to become your new favourite thing",[7] while Stuart Clark of Hot Press wrote in January 2025 that lines like "He gives me head while I've been losing mine" are "guaranteed to make your Aunt Bridie blush".[8]
Rose announced the EP in October 2024 alongside the futurepop track "Imsochillandcool", which was produced by Couros. She wrote the latter with Pura Bliss and about an ex-partner replacing her. Thompson also produced a video for the track.[2] Robin Murray of Clash described the track as "a blast of self-effacing digi-pop dexterity, one that shouts from the heart".[9] Later that month, she announced an eleven-date tour of Europe promoting the EP,[10] which sold out in ten minutes, prompting Rose to book further dates and upgrade several of the venues.[11] In December 2024, she released "Pretty World", which she had written with its producer Charlie Hugall during her first few live shows about the feeling of success she experienced after performing.[12] Jenessa Williams of The Forty-Five described the track as a combination of "country, baroque-pop and the melodramatics of emo".[13]
In January 2025, Rose surprise-released "Start All Over",[1] which Rose and Audrey Hobert wrote about wanting a crush to make the first move. Josh Scarbrow produced the track. Anagricel Duran of NME wrote that the track "opens with a soft, country-reminiscent guitar riff and quickly goes into a pop beat".[14] Rose released the EP on AWAL on 17 January 2025,[15] having by then released the EP's closer, "Don't Ask Questions", as a single. The EP also contained "Oh My", "Imsochillandcool", "Pretty World", "Start All Over", and a brand new song, "IKYK". "Don't Ask Questions" was written about discovering a partner's ex-girlfriend was not similar to her and opting not to investigate further, while "IKYK" was written about unspoken feelings and was described by Emily Savage of DIY as a combination of "vocoder-splashed vocals", "propulsive basslines and cascading percussion".[16]
To celebrate the release of the EP, Rose held a party for a random selection of her fans and fan accounts.[1] Kelsey Barnes of The Line of Best Fit felt that "Don't Ask Questions" was a highlight of the EP,[1] while wrote that the EP brimmed with "uncompromising honesty and infectious wit"[16] and Felicity Newton of Dork described it as a "testament to Alessi Rose's songwriting prowess".[15]
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Personnel
Musicians
- Alessi Rose – vocals (all tracks)
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- Stuart Hawkes – master engineering (all tracks)
- Joe Hartwell-Jones – mix engineering (all tracks)
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