Ilianna Viramontes explored a cosmos of emotion within her expansively styled pop EP, For a Reason –

After teasing the airwaves with a string of singles which effortlessly bedded down as perennial pop earworms for audiences worldwide, Ilianna Viramontes has cemented her position as one of the most promising singer-songwriters of 2025. Having bowled over the judges on The Voice, she’s now channelling that magnetism into the fully formed soundscape of her debut EP, For a Reason. Wrestling elements of indie pop, funk, and dream pop into the four-track release, she’s created something far more expansive than many artists manage across entire careers. The seminal single, Just Might, encapsulates her power as a conceptually immersive singer-songwriter best.

The standout single finds an efficacious way of projecting the fear of intimacy while illustrating how sweet that freefall into uninhabited affection can be. There’s hesitance, hope, and that dizzying sense of risk that love always carries, all balanced within hooks so gratifying they feel like a dopamine rush you never want to end. The panoramic atmosphere evokes the era of 90s pop where emotion and melody intertwined without apology, while the reverie-rich modern production ensures the track’s crossover appeal feels instinctive rather than contrived.

Produced by Jonathan Cole and released through Highway Music, For a Reason serves as a diary entry set to melody. The Brentwood-born, Berklee-trained artist now based in Nashville captures the full arc of becoming — from heartbreak to empowerment to the slow, thrilling rediscovery of trust. In Just Might, she distils that arc into three and a half minutes of rapture; no gimmickry, no forced perfection, just sincerity that surges through pop polish like light through stained glass. Ilianna Viramontes has arrived on the scene like a riptide washing away the monotony of superficiality.

Just Might is now available on all major streaming platforms via this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast