Mel Denisse sings from the other side of the glass in her new single, “aiming alone,” a melancholic track about isolation and the desire to be understood.
Nashville-based artist and producer Mel Denisse releases “aiming alone,” her newest drop after last year’s singles, “going nowhere” and “like a fiend.” The song is a delicate blend of alt-rock and shoegaze. It follows the concept of wanting to reach out from the other side of a glass.
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Through the glass, darkly
The track begins with oddly hypnotizing strings, which are soon interwoven with layers of Denisse’s eerie yet dreamy vocals. Its chorus is tonally reminiscent of the edgier, grunge-pop acts from the 1990s, though much more ethereal and atmospheric.
Mel Denisse captures the feeling of watching the world through glass, where the two sides can see each other but can never physically meet. There is a sense of feeling trapped. As well as of undergoing surveillance from the outside world. The song ends with, as Denisse herself put it, “an acceptance of the lone road, and the resolve of aiming alone.”
I’ll be holding blindly ‘cause maybe I want to leave it all
And maybe it’s just crazy, I think I’m only aiming alone.
More About Mel Denisse
Hailing from Nashville, the city known as the birthplace of country music, Mel Denisse defies expectations and inhabits a genre all her own. Her music captures the harmony in discordance. She experiments with distorted production, combining sharp alt-rock influences and soft shoegaze soundscapes.
She has been featured on BBC Radio 1’s Alternative Show and Spotify’s All New Rock, and has garnered praise from renowned music sites such as LADYGUNN and EARMILK.
Listen to “aiming alone” on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. Follow Mel Denisse on Instagram to keep up with her future releases.
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