Oblivion never looked so pretty, falling for Sophie Jamieson’s slow “Release”

The lasting effects reverberate through pulsating, heart-skipping beats and echo through gently repeating lyrics, persisting like a mantra: “Release / Easy / Baby”. Dark, softly swirling guitars recall Sophie Jamieson's earlier material but take a very large step away from her acoustic folk origins, and also away from this year’s earlier EP, Hammer.

“Release” takes a more distilled, calm approach. The simplicity of the beautiful, slow electronic pop swells gives greater strength to Jamieson’s already impressive narrative voice - to the point that when she says: “Oblivion never looked so pretty”, you’re ready to fall in with her.

“This song is a search for peace by any means necessary,” says Jamieson. “I wanted to escape how I felt, to blur it and take the edge off it, to indulge in it and then leave it behind.

“It reflects the constant effort to balance feeling too much and feeling nothing, the desperate search for equilibrium that only ever ends in chaos.”

Drawn from her EP of the same name, which was produced by Steph Marziano (Hayley Williams, Denai Moore, Lazy Day) - “Release” does exactly what it says on the tin: “Kicking / Falling / Freely / Peace / Release.”