“We Have To” begins with a sense of intrigue and thriller, haunting even earlier than the guitar strings are available. The lead single from Zoe Konez’s album The whole lot’s Positive, launched 12 June, it arrives on a single fingerpicked guitar line, recorded shut sufficient to catch each shift of the strings, and stays there longer than you count on. Her voice is available in measured, and one thing concerning the mixture sits with you the best way a half-formed thought does, the type you retain returning to.
Her voice delicate and plainspoken to the purpose of austerity. We do this stuff / As a result of now we have to / When the massive dangerous wolf / Blows our home proper in / We construct again up. The imagery is borrowed from childhood however the feeling beneath it’s fully grownup. Selecting your battles as a result of the choice is dropping each considered one of them. The repetition throughout the verses is the sound of somebody speaking themselves into the following step, repeatedly.
“The whole lot’s Positive got here from realising that the life I’d constructed wasn’t really the one I needed. It grew to become a method of working by way of that confusion, and slowly determining the best way to construct one thing that felt extra truthful,” Konez has stated. That admission sits straight inside this music. She writes, data and produces every thing herself from a house studio in Brighton, and “We Have To” sounds precisely like that association, no distance between the concept and the execution.
With over 5 million Spotify streams and a Netflix sync placement in Love Is Blind USA, Konez has constructed one thing actual independently. The success makes extra sense when you hear a music like this.
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