Airy pop for flower-crown wearing Coachella goers.

Zella Day may not be a name you are familiar with, but her musical style definitely is. On most of her self-titled EP, Arizona-born now LA-based Day draws striking similarities to well-established pop artists we‰’ve come to know and love.

Citing her as a major inspiration, Day‰’s vocals encompass a Lana Del Rey-esque timbre that float less-hauntingly over lighter electro-pop beats through most of the EP. Even the song structure on tracks like “Compass,‰” a piano and strings driven balled, and “East of Eden,‰” a light pop-dubstep anthem is highly reminiscent of Del Rey‰’s style in both “Ride‰” and “Summertime Sadness‰” (the Cedric Gervais version and original) circa the Born to Die/Paradise eras.

The only tracks where Zella Day‰’s own artistic style appears are on the opening track “Sweet Ophelia,‰” and her acoustic-coffeehouse cover of “Seven Nation Army.‰” These tracks, “Seven Nation Army‰” in particular, reveal her soft yet controlled vocal abilities while “Sweet Ophelia‰” acts as an example of how her talents are being molded into the indie pop genre she‰’s trying to fit into.

Day shows potential with this EP, the songs are all equally lighthearted and catchy, but if Zella Day wants to distinguish herself in the pop world, she still has a lot of work to do.

Recommended Tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4
RIYL: Lana Del Rey, Lykke Li, Broods