When 24-year-old Londoner Sophie Might broke by means of TikTok’s algorithm in 2020, she made it clear that she wasn’t right here to romanticise her life. Complimenting the candour of ‘Lover Boy’ and ‘Dangerous Man’, the uncooked, #MeToo-reminiscent ‘With The Band’ felt like a singular voice rising, trying again upon the joys of courting a rockstar with maturity and empathy for {the teenager} who tolerated excess of she ought to have.
Might’s second EP is a bit more dulcet in tone, buying and selling the intriguing nation twang of her debut, 2022’s ‘You Do Not Have To Be Good’, for extra simple acoustic folks. However that doesn’t imply she’s pulling any lyrical punches. This time round, her tracks give area to the intrusive ideas that hassle us at evening, the obsessions that whir once we’re feeling down or susceptible.
Confessions of trying up a accomplice’s new girlfriend on-line mingle with fantasies of extra-marital affairs, family members dying in freakish automobile accidents versus the visceral remorse of babysitting an immature boyfriend for too lengthy. It might really feel mawkish had been it not so intensely relatable: for anybody who lives with OCD or anxiety-ridden spirals, this EP will really feel like a deep, comforting breath of recognition.
That includes co-writes with Matt Maltese (‘Worst Ideas In The World’), and Spector‘s Fred Macpherson (‘Killing You In My Sleep’), there’s an affection for ’00s indie-inspired sounds at play, curling across the edges of Might’s preparations. ‘Want I Was A Single Woman Once more’ channels the hazy summer season melancholia of Laura Marling, whereas ‘Doppelganger’ pairs a story re-writing of Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Deja Vu’ with a lamenting instrumental much like Arctic Monkeys’ ‘Despair In The Departure Lounge’ – the proper reference factors for any self-respecting younger millennial. As all the time, it’s Might’s disarmingly blunt punchlines that give her music chunk, splintering her softness by chopping proper to the chase: “Sick within the head considering of us once we’re in mattress / You’re fucking me / If you pull my hair / It’s similar to pulling hers I wager.”
This EP isn’t maybe as numerous as Might’s debut, however for an artist on a path of steely self-reflection, typically being daring sufficient to easily admit to what you’re really considering can really feel revelatory sufficient.
Particulars
- Launch date: August 18
- Document label: Imagine
