Lewi SWiPER’s new EP, “COLDWIRE,” is a brisk but emotionally heavy journey through the grittier nooks of late-night London energy, the type of project that has you walking around in cold air with warm thoughts you’re struggling not to confess. Over three tracks, he smudges emo-rap into trap-soul and alt-R&B on a cinematic soundscape erected by emotional distance, quiet growth, and the tension between wanting love but knowing you’re incapable of holding it. It’s slick, sentimental, and meant to land the hardest when the world stops spinning around you.
“SAY GOODBYE” is the EP’s opener, with a frosty, atmospheric vibe that is numbing and otherwise calculated. The production twinkles in soft synths and nocturnal reverb, creating enough space for Lewi to strut a melodic flow that’s as filled with detachment as it is vice versa. He manages to capture that moment of the push and pull when you’re pushing someone away, but you actually want them to stay. Its mood is quietly heavy. As an opener, it provides the emotional blueprint for the rest of the project: a battle between self-preservation and weak spots that never seems to fully dissolve.
The tension tightens even more as we switch over to “KOMT.” The beat gets slightly darker and more aggressive, packing all that toxic-but-soft London energy Lewi does so well. He’s also leaning into his sonic confidence here, which makes the song sound like a late-night confession whispered between streetlights. It has a bite to it, a frustrated truth-telling that grounds the EP’s emotional arc. Sonically, it connects the first song’s smoothness to the contemplative introspection of the last one, making it feel like this project has a middle heartbeat.
Ending with “I WONDER,” Lewi lowers the mood into a cloudier, more contemplative realm. The production widens, nearly airily, allowing him to reckon with the feelings he attempted to flee from in earlier tracks. It sounds like the moment after a riot: quieter, clearer, and honest in a way that feels uncontrived. This closer provides “COLDWIRE” with its emotional anchor, evidence that the project isn’t only about heartbreak or distance but the stirrings of a reckoning for where those patterns begin.
Even at just three songs and a strict seven minutes long, “COLDWIRE” lands like a full emotional cycle: freezing at first, cutting in the middle, and shockingly revealing at the end. Lewi SWiPER is steadily making a name for himself within the UK’s landscape of alternative rap/R&B and continues to demonstrate simmering confidence that he’s not only just organizing melodies but building a whole mood around them.