Carried by lulling plucks of the guitar, reminiscent of the continuous beating of a clock, is ‘Lantern Flies’ the first track off May Payne's new EP 'High Demand'. This tender vignette celebrates a summer spent in love, with the joy of discovering new people and new places. The lyrics "I don’t know what Winter will do to us", lays bare the track’s central awareness of limited time and the sorrow of knowing moments that feel timeless and love that feels everlasting are both inevitably fleeting.
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May's heart-wrenching nostalgia is elevated by orchestral waves and the included voice memos from her summer, with these offering an intimacy an authenticity characteristic of May's songwriting. Alongside the EP’s quicker-pulsed and emotionally heated ‘Pull Away’, May offers extreme portrayals of relationships, with charming, melancholic vocals evocative of Adrienne Lenker. ‘Lantern Flies’, is a poignant highlight of the EP; an honest ode to May's strange magic and the agony of finite love, opening a window into the introspective Folk melody, which beautifully blends melancholy with frustration and desperation with nostalgia.
The five tracks off 'High Demand' are a poetic cumulation of sentiments reflecting on the emotional turbulence of May's past relationship, in a cathartic symbiosis of Folk and other genres, celebrating the gritty, ballad-like influences of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. 'High Demand' invites you to share in a poignant stream of consciousness, exploring intense love and identity with honesty and tender intimacy.
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