Sacramento-based independent artist Azul Towers has released “Expectation,” a new single paired with a music video now streaming on YouTube. The song continues her signature alternative dark-pop sound, shaped by Latin and R&B influences and a gothic edge that her peers hear in everything she writes, from upbeat reggaeton to dreamy love songs.
“Expectation” wasn’t planned as a major release. Towers wrote and recorded it in El Paso the night before her flight back to California, squeezing in one last studio session before locking in for the law school semester. She expected nothing special. It became one of her favorite songs she has ever made.
She loved it enough to give it the full visual treatment. A year after recording it, she drove to Los Angeles to film the video with a group of talented friends she had met in El Paso years earlier. The shoot took two days on a minimal budget, and the finished video, in her words, came out epic. She counts it among the works she is proudest of.
The release reflects a shift in how Towers works. She says she used to believe that creating music and putting it out would be enough, and she now sees herself as both the talent and the CEO of her career. “Expectation” is the result of that mindset: a song she believed in, a team she trusted, and a video she built with her own hands.
Towers was born in Juárez, Chihuahua, raised mostly in El Paso, and now splits her time between law school and music. Her goal is simple: to reach people and promote love and unity through her art.
