EP Review: Bite

Helicopters, wild cheers and deep bass open missrosevalentina’s newest EP Bite as a cinematic trailer. Rolling into a thumping dance beat and familiar vocals from Jeiel and of course missrosevalentina. Pumping like a big European or USA electro-dance hit, it’s hard to believe Kiwis have this amount of power available to make our own roaring alternative electro scene. Her earlier releases found more traction overseas than here in Aotearoa. So, the assignment is clear, let’s make this a chart-listed EP we can all be proud of. Continue the pride by including missrosevalentina permanently on your EDM playlist.

A collaboration with Jeiel (formerly Jeivenchy) starts the new lip-covered EP on a heavy note. The music produced and written by missrosevalentina is of a rare quality we often miss in NZ. Her collaborations with international artists like L.I.L.L.I prove her collaboration skills are well received. It also shows her talent cannot be covered by just one genre. Electro plays a big part but the pop and hip-hop sounds and even some hidden rock sounds are just some of the broader styles she uses to get you moving.

Baby, Dance, Unwired!, adds a wink to the electro, dance and D&B mix with a nod to the 2010’s Skrillex Dubstep sound. For me this opening song on the EP is a real keeper. Any heavy electro playlist should have this song featured. It warms up your speakers and sure gets me excited for what comes next.

The track The Spectator was an early teaser to be the EP and continues the well-polished electro feel. With natural-sounding drums and great echoing vocals it all is mixed with more dark sounding grunge strings. There is even something of a goth feel to the song. The riffs follow a similar style she used in October 2025, on the single Poison Ivy. This may well have been the ‘real’ EP teaser. Recorded at UC Fine Arts studio, this single is one of the few still available on Spotify, as she also supports the movement/ migration away from the platform. Getting artists paid and featured fairly seems to be a message musicians want us to understand.

The overall cinematic feel to the songs follows the same style as the single Expensiveeeee that did get played on Radio one 91FM Dunedin more than once in 2024. The vocal break used in this track gave us a look into her political views of life, where this time the songs have more personal vocal samples, giving an insight in her personality and some gossip about missrosevalentina.

If the opening songs were too tame, the EP title track, Bite, will sure make you get up. Deep bass, screeching strings and explicit vocals keep the song going from beginning to end. The song featuring Latachà; it once again proves her collaborative magic. Hip-hop vocals used here with great rhymes are a nice transfer to the next song.

ST*U is very different from the rest of the EP. It’s more a statement and proof that hip-hop is also a style missrosevalentina understands. Clear sounds and well-mastered vocals take us away from the sharper electro elements in the other songs.

Closing the EP takes us back to her alternative-pop-electro sound. Warm melodies and synth-morphed vocals are in a way a little nod to the first release by missrosevalentina back in 2016. The playful synth sounds of Video Games is a little like this EP closer. The words might sound foreign, if you have a less erotically open-minded lifestyle, but the economy we live in is well described in these lyrics. The lyric, “All I want is your cash, your bands” on bandsbandsbandsbandsbands, is often used in Hip-hop, and missrosevalentina is mixing this very well with her alternative electro sounds and other provocative lyrics.

The CD and Bandcamp release include two bonus tracks. Tracks which are the cherry on an already well decorated EP. The artwork looks delicious and provocative. From her days as Hybrid Rose, she has never been shy to use her body as the canvas for album, singles, and EP covers. Sending a message or setting a vibe that is in line with her music, and the power she brings to the scene is clear. She is not to be messed with, she will “Bite”, this EP will leave a lasting tune humming in your mind.

For fans here in Aotearoa, she has rare attention to flow and storytelling and lets us hear the genre‑bending heavy-goth-electro-pop scene she is known for. missrosevalentina is turning Bite into more than just a track list. This is a full cinematic heavy-bass ride that keeps giving each time you play it. Dreaming away in a cityscape or at a wild surf, let this EP be showing you all the different emotions it houses, let it be your new obsession.