‘watch you blur’ in the new single from Cherry Seraph AKA artist and producer Sophie Russell. Having reviewed the dark-electronic pop song ‘self-destruct’ this new release has a more hazy-electronica feel with a soft melancholy in the gentle eddies of synthesiser washes which reflects the song’s subject matter. Sophie Russell explains: “I was traveling in Southeast Asia last year when my long-term relationship came to an end whilst we were both out there together. I was processing a lot of coexisting emotions all at once and I wrote this song when I was mentally ‘counting down’ the days and minutes before I wouldn’t see them again once I flew home.”
Over the swirling keyboards there are flashes of drumbeats and electronic fireworks, one seemingly representing calm on the outside but the other the turmoil and anger bubbling underneath.
“The song really talks about that strange period where you feel everything so intensely within a break-up that it starts to morph into numbness. I didn’t know where to put what it was that I was feeling, which is evident in the chorus with lyrics such as, “I’m bending under the weight of it all.”
Cherry Seraph has a way of avoiding the dental decay from music that is too sweet and her voice has an unforced quality and tranquil beauty which often makes it sound like it’s coming from another reality. Given the lightness of this and the dark hues of ‘self-destruct’ Cherry paints with a broad colour palette and I can’t wait to hear more tracks in the future (an EP is on my wish list). Definitely an artist to watch.
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Lyrics:
I’m hollowed out
Waiting for the light to turn down
Do you think of me still?
Laid next to me you’d stir
I’d look at you so quietly
Close my eyes just enough to watch you blur I crave the beauty
Of knowing you’re into me
But I don’t know what to say
You left so cruelly
In the dead of night
But I don’t know what to say
Carrying yourself so coolly
I’m bending under the weight of it all
I hope the love I gave was never a waste
Most nights I watch the sky
Right above my head
I miss you coming by
I know you’ve got your fill
Do you think of me still?
I crave the beauty
Of knowing you’re into me
But I don’t know what to say
You left so cruelly
In the dead of night
But I don’t know what to say
Carrying yourself so coolly
I’m bending under the weight of it all
I hope the love I gave was never a waste
I crave the beauty
I crave the beauty
Of knowing you’re into me
You left so cruelly
In the dead of night
But I don’t know what to say
Carrying yourself so coolly
I’m bending under the weight of it all
I hope the love I gave was never a waste
But I don’t know what to say
But I don’t know what to say
Review by Paul F Cook
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