Ella Clayton’s new single Dolomites is about the desperate need to be alone, even when you’re physically stuck beside someone, with no means of escape.
The song opens in a near lullaby state with baroque textures. Clayton’s voice is soft and vulnerable, tracing images of mountains and long roads with a kind of distance. But you can feel it beginning to fray.
Impounding dread / We’re motionless / I feel like a stone in a stream / Eroding slowly / Earth below me/ I swear I’m going to scream
There is a shift in the progression through subtle changes in rhythm and texture. When the instrumentation thickens, pulling in edgier, rock-leaning influences, it feels like a release.
When Claytons sings, “I want to be alone” and the repeated “why won’t anybody let me be,” it doesn’t feel like a question but more of a breaking point.
Dolomites portrays the claustrophobia that can come with the solitude, the noise inside your own head when all you want is silence.
Ella Clayton’s second studio album ‘Could It Be You?’ is set for release on 24th April.
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