Greta Isaac has released her intimate new single ‘how are you not freaking out?’ today, the latest instalment to her eagerly anticipated new EP ‘I Think You’d Hate It Here’ – due for release on 6th May via Made Records.
Teaming up with friends and fellow artists Orla Gartland and Matt Zara to pen the track, ‘how are you not freaking out?’ is song about suppressing feelings and performing to people’s expectations. It sees Greta open up even more in her writing and go even deeper in her exploration of our often hidden human emotions. It’s a song about realising the error in her people-pleasing ways and offers startling imagery to convey the panic when this realisation sets in – “I see the wood for the trees and they’re on fire,” sings Greta.
The song begins with a subdued strummed guitar accompanying Greta’s vulnerable vocals, with its beautiful dissonances tugging on the heartstrings. As the song progresses, so too does it build and eventually release into a stirringly powerful soundscape which is set to be a huge moment on the forthcoming record.
Speaking of the single, Greta said: “I wrote this one with my good friend Orla Gartland and Matt Zara. This song has always felt like a dark, wet, cold suburban neighbourhood. I guess what that brings up for me is the suppression of emotion in a bid to keep up with appearances, or to avoid becoming difficult. And even when you’re brave enough to speak up and be truthful about your emotions, and you’re met with resistance or rejection, you can feel lonely and it can be difficult to trust yourself ever again. To me, this is a song about honesty, anger and resistance.”
Greta will headline one of Jack Saunders’ infamous ‘Hopscotch’ club nights on 8th April, at London’s Oslo. She’s also set to support tastemaker act Dan D’Lion on his upcoming UK tour. Tickets can be found here.
