Suki Waterhouse, Melrose Meltdown
Sub Pop
Did anyone see that infamous Vogue article about how 2014 Tumblr is back? We almost believed it when Lana released Watercolor Eyes, but we didn’t fully believe it until Suki Waterhouse announced her debut album. Making her way through to take the evocative, gorgeous songwriterly crown with lead single Melrose Meltdown, Waterhouse previews the record I Can’t Let Go in style.
With image-heavy, sparkling lyrics laden with lines about ‘old-fashioned things’, ‘diamonds and drug stores’, and ‘crying on your milk-white sheets’, Waterhouse’s writing is beautifully visual, creating a kind of photo montage or blurry, well-thumbed scrapbook of moments. It’s befitting of the track’s softly heart-breaking nostalgia, which swells with emotion in its restrained musical backdrop, comprised of a reverberating piano and production that crackles and gleams. It’s classy, timeless, and immense, just real enough and just aspirational enough at the same time.
Melrose Meltdown joins previous singles Move and My Mind, which whilst not so lofty in magnitude do build more of the luscious atmosphere that I Can’t Let Go is sure to bring. Waterhouse’s velvet vocals tie the three tracks together in hazy, explorative magic, preparing us for a record that’s personal and poetic and needs no more than that to build its atmosphere.
I Can’t Let Go is out 22 April.
