Let’s admit it to each other: we all put off a lot of things, and listing them all is a pointless exercise – the list risks being endless. This applies not only to everyday life but also to quite specific fields. In music, for instance, a songwriter, having written a song, sometimes sets it aside – for a month, a year, sometimes for an indefinite period, until it finds its place or its time. That is exactly what the heroine of this review did – Allegra. The singer’s new work, “Unreleased EP,” came out on August 28 and gathered six tracks that had found no place in the previous story. But, as it turns out, the stories that found no place often turn out to have the most interesting voice.
Allegra appeared on the British dance scene like a bright flash. In 2023, the single “Round and Round” with Tiësto climbed to the top of the Music Week Commercial Pop chart, and a year later “Love You Right Back” with DJ ALOK repeated that success. This was the territory of the club pop hit: bright, recognizable, made to sound loud. But the turning point came with the debut EP “Unsent Love Letters Vol 1,” produced by Tim Gosden – the release marked a shift from standalone hits to a more cohesive, personal statement. “Red” continued that movement, deepening the sound and the tone. Allegra has seven singles behind her, millions of streams, and a steady presence in international charts. And now – “Unreleased EP,” a project made up of six tracks written over the past year which, by the artist’s own admission, didn’t fit the concept of “Red,” but turned out to be too important to remain unreleased.
Musically, the release continues the logic of her previous work: club electronics, springy dance rhythms, and bright pop – but with lyrics that sound more candid and vulnerable than ever. Love, breakups, independence, self-discovery – these are the coordinates within which this EP exists. Let me offer a brief overview of the record.
“Romantic” is the tenderest prologue, opening the mini-album. Released back on August 21 as the first single, it became the right choice for inaugurating the project. A shimmering, weightless track – for those who stubbornly choose to believe in fairy tales, even while wandering through the ruins of past relationships. The song sounds like a summer sunrise over an empty dance floor, where a light sadness dissolves into a bright premonition of something bigger. The title itself carries a sense of resolve – a rare quality for a track that could so easily have turned out saccharine. But belief in a fairy tale is rarely untroubled – wherever there are feelings, there’s room for jealousy too. “Kiss Some Other Girls” shifts the emotion into a different register: its rhythm, melody, and vocal work like a plot – a danceable, defiant piece in which jealousy and pride intertwine within a single rhythm, and the beat becomes a way of saying what’s hard to say directly.
After that dance-floor intensity, you want to speak more quietly – and more honestly. The contrast comes from “In Person,” a track about the difference between what can be said from a distance and what requires presence and looking someone in the eye. Trembling ballad-pop that plays on the contrast between living human warmth and digital distance, where the singer’s vocal sounds touching and sensual. From this fragile closeness, the record takes a step toward clarity. Closing out this part of the story is the house track “Sober” – a choice that looks deliberate: the song carries calm and a sober look back, and the house sound brings dance energy back to the record, though without the previous intensity.
Having found this sobriety, the heroine takes the next, far more confident step. From other people’s kisses and glances back, the EP moves on to solitude – “Dancing Alone” turns independence into a statement. Listening to the song, a scene appears before your eyes: dancing without a partner, and the image of someone who has learned to be enough on their own, and free. And within this freedom, track by track, the last illusion begins to crack – the belief that someone else’s drama still holds power over the heroine. Closing out the EP is “Feel Sorry For Ya,” which pulls you in with energetic bass and an intonation where sympathy mixes with sarcasm. Allegra fully swaps the role of dreamer for that of an ironic observer, letting go of past grievances with the ease of an evening cocktail – a slightly biting farewell to someone else’s drama, delivered in a springy dance body, and it’s on this note that the EP comes to a close.
By releasing “Unreleased EP,” the singer isn’t offering the listener a collection of songs that simply “didn’t get lucky” enough to make the previous release. On the contrary, these are six reasons to believe that Allegra has a voice of her own – melodic, open, and brave enough to talk about a broken heart not in a whisper, but in a rhythm you want to dance to. Allegra’s “Unreleased EP” is worth listening to if only to feel these emotions and let them go – without a trace of rationality, plainly and honestly.
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