We last wrote about Californian Taylor Hamilton back in April, when we shared the single ‘Might Say’ from her debut album. It was a song “keyed into the beauty and meaning that emerges from patience and nuance,” we wrote. “Operat[ing] within a kind of expansive melancholy, a sound both emotive and ethereal that relies as much on the negative space between the notes as the notes themselves.”
Taylor Hamilton recently unveiled the album’s second single, and the title, ‘What Is Real’, gives clues as to its themes. As the press release states, “[the] existential question opens the doorway into a piece of music that will send the listener tumbling into outer space, into a place without gravity, where all things are relative and primordial.”
As with ‘Might Say’, the track again exists in a vast empty space, sparse guitar and the bell-like purity of Hamilton’s voice ringing out in the dark. It’s a love song, but on existential terms, exploring the warm reassurance of confirming your existence by “feeling” the existence of someone else.
I know, I know I’m feeling you,
You exists and I think you do too