At just 16 years old, Gold Coast-born singer-songwriter Annabelle Tiffin follows the viral success of her debut “Currents” with “Motion Sickness,” a heart-on-sleeve indie-pop stunner navigating the desperate preference for hatred over indifference within a relationship. Written in the back of a car during a Sydney-to-Melbourne road trip, the track moves from lush acoustic intimacy to anthemic, piano-laden emotional catharsis with a lyrical maturity well beyond her years.
“Look at me like you did when we used to fight,” Tiffin’s contemplative vocals begin, melodically enjoyable amidst lush acoustic strums then build into a pulsing bass readiness and subsequent expanse. There, Tiffin’s vocals let out with an anthemic allure — “hate me, but don’t you leave me” — as more impassioned strums and slight percussion adds cohesively. “I didn’t want this,” her vocals continue to resonate, culminating in a gorgeous piano-laden, title-bearing punctuation.
The piano work continues to delight in bouncier form, as Tiffin’s vocals enamor in their “I’ll fight for the front seat, so you’re forced to see me” musings. The stirring “hate me” chorus reprises thereafter, showing a preference for emotions — even in their negative form — over indifference within a relationship. “Take the knife, twist it,” pulsating instrumentation and fervent vocals intertwine as the conclusion approaches, definitively concluding with a dreamy folk-set subduedness. “Motion Sickness” is a heart-on-sleeve, memorable standout from the quickly ascending Annabelle Tiffin.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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