After a number of releases in the interim, we’re delighted to share ‘Far Away’, the brand new single from Lizzy & the Fanatics. Opening with warm washes of synths, the track quickly sets out a sense of grandness, its sparkling pop sound possessing the depth and richness of an early nineties movie soundtrack.

Thematically, the track takes on the unreality of the online experience, drawing a line between the countless not-quite-lived moments of our time on the internet and the action of dreaming. For we can be free online, not quite ourselves or not ourselves at all, or even a hundred different selves all at once. As Lizzy sings: “A thousand dreams in the same night / a thousand versions of me in sight.”

However, ‘Far Away’ is not a celebration of this new reality. Because in this atomisation of the self, this flattening, something is lost. It might not be immediately obvious, or easily diagnosed, but a nagging feeling persists. For the internet can be less like a freedom and more like a retreat. A withdrawal from everything but the most superficial, transient contact.

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