In the lead up to her debut album, For Who I Was, the Portland-based musician Rosie Haze has given listeners another peek behind the curtain with new single ‘Fresh Flowers’. Recorded at home, this is a thoroughly DIY effort from the songwriting to the recording to the production, and this evokes such an authentic intimacy than many artists can’t quite pin down in a more professional studio setting.
This slow-burning affair washes in with haunting guitars and steady percussion that perfectly sets the atmosphere for Haze‘s reflective narrative. Her voice, with its charming celtic lilt, walks that careful line between soaring melodies and laid-back passivity as she unpacks the emotional fall-out from a break-up. One of our favourite images that the artist poetically paints, “I’m wearing black for who I was before, cut fresh flowers and set them on my grave.” It’s this idea of standing between two states; the living and the dead, the present and the past, the triumphant and the broken.
While ‘Fresh Flowers’ is rooted in the end of something, the focus is clearly on the verdant growth that comes from choosing acceptance over vengeance. What we really enjoy about this dark-pop track is that Haze doesn’t push her listeners to relate to her experience, instead she delivers this confessional indie portrait with a nonchalant aura. For some, you’ll find solace in Rosie Haze‘s songwriting and for others you might just be hear for those reverb-drenched chords.
You can also listen to ‘Fresh Flowers’ in our Shades of Pop playlist.
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