Intimate and delicate, ‘Low’ sees the addition of lonely chimes and the softest of synths to create something haunting yet warm, sounds steeped in small hopes and the passing of time. Lyrically, the song is very much for the confused young generation, bathed in that lingering, unnameable dissatisfaction or sadness that seems to work its way into the fabric of things. Here we find Cutler somewhat lost in the present, unsure of where or how she is (“Oh where / does the time go / I’m so high / and so low”), and relinquishing whatever semblance of freedom she once held in favour of submission to fate.

“I used to
make decisions
but these days
they seem to make
me

and i wondered
“where does it all go?”
and now
i know”

The track comes complete with a video by Taya Bayat, a lovely and surprisingly moving sequence shot in the American Museum Of Natural History and the surrounding park.

You can get ‘Low’ on a pay-what-you-can basis via the Yours Are The Only Ears Bandcamp page.

Artwork by Madelyn Bullard

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