Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Jill Lorean taps into something vivid and passionate with her single “Walls”, a song she lets out her emotions and delivers a cathartic release as a result – both for her and the listener.
The song channels classic songwriters of lovesongs such as Pat Benatar, with a bit of a modern twist emulating new titans of the genre such as Sharon Van Etten. It’s a primal and guttural sort of emotion that shines through – but boy, does it ever.
About the track, Lorean details:
Around the time we wrote this song I was asking myself, does the world need any more love songs? I love Pat Benatar as much as the next person but they truly are everywhere, seeping through walls and headphones and closed car windows. And so I tried to write about something else, like politics or something inanimate, only to be drawn back into the same themes of betrayal, heartbreak, yearning and lament. I realised that we are emotional beings, I am an emotional being, and making noise and music is a primal act of catharsis, of expressing oneself. And to sing and play your heart out loudly feels so damn good. So that’s what we did.
Enjoy a listen to “Walls” now below.
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