Cajsa Siik opens up on new single "Crooked Moon"

On her last album, 2017’s Domino, the former was largely dominant. But her latest single sees her pivot again. "Crooked Moon" is the first song from Siik’s new EP, and it strips her sound back to the very basics.



It makes its mark lightly; at only 2:42 and a couple of choruses, it doesn’t try and stretch and artificially capture a sense of epic grandeur that’s beyond it. It’s just Siik, her piano and an open-hearted song that hits you hard, without fuss or strain. A simple song, but one that makes a significant impact.

Siik has written a short piece about the single and the upcoming EP:

"I don’t believe in forgiveness you said. I believe in a rationed melancholic indulgent acceptance. I believe in oblivion. Once I had this treacherous and romantic almost religious dream that forgiveness could bring me serenity – now. A comforting idea somehow. And when all my lines have been crossed, been neglected and ignored – I guess that’s when I need you the most. When my damage is done. Strong and blue, still never enough, to fill the gap – redo. My love, these are words we’ve heard a million times, a chance for peace speech, yet another line? To cross. Whatever it means to forgive. To live. I guess I’ll never learn – and maybe that’s the point. There is a pounding personal grief in this air that I breathe. Making marks. It takes different shapes and forms – fallible, vulnerable and torn."