Hayley Mary releases new EP title-track "The Drip"

"The Drip" is the opening song and title-track from Mary's forthcoming EP, and follows lead single "Young & Stupid" that arrived earlier this month.

Mary says of the song, "I was sitting in the window at my tenement flat in Leith when the phrase, 'it was a dirty grey day, there was a constant drizzle'. I knew there was a song in it, but it was not until a year or so later, back in Melbourne, that I found my shoebox of napkins. It sparked a nostalgia for Scotland and I began piecing them together and filling in the story and a romantic yet cynical, addiction riddled figure who I'd known in a lot of people, including myself, who was killing himself slowly in a mundane, everyday sort of way."

She adds, "There was also a violent drip on my windowsill when it stormed, which haunted me in the night like the Raven of Edgar Allan Poe, and a leaking tap in the kitchen I just couldn't seem to get around to fixing, that seemed to represent everything I was letting slip by. I'll admit I don't know entirely what the song is about, or whether it's the ramblings of an optimist or a nihilist, but I think it's my favourite of mine so far."

The Drip will include six tracks, and will follow Mary's 2020 debut solo EP The Piss, The Perfume.