Melding alt-folk and melodic rock, “Good Enough” is the self-produced new single from Nashville-based artist Eva Cassel. The track stands out with a climactic production, where memorable vocals, a recently inherited mandolin, and dynamic guitars lead in navigating the internal dissonance, heartbreak, and second-guessing of a breakup.
“I just keep second-guessing myself, and wondering…” a conversational vocal memo sample opens the track, then moving into warming guitar twangs as Cassel’s affecting vocal presence emerges. “How do you know when it’s right?” she lets out. “Can it ever be just bad timing?” The perspectives of a smitten state — “when I look in your eyes…” — moves into a more disappointing reality, of looking for answers and not finding it. “Was it right for leaving? Am I fucking up?” Cassel’s vocals assume a stirringly vulnerable quality while emitting a soaring tonal charm, artfully tracing the dissolution of a relationship and the aftermath, through both lingering emotion — “still sleeping in your t-shirt…” — and aforementioned second-guessing.
An especially resonant segment shows around the two-minute turn, where the lusher trickling swells into an electric ardor as Cassel’s vocals show a sense of catharsis and confidence, trusting in “my gut” and framing the difference between “good and good enough” as a very important distinction within relationships. “Good Enough” is a fantastic, affecting piece of songwriting, tactfully exploring post-breakup contemplations amidst a melodic rock and alt-folk synergy.
“Good Enough” represents the first release from Cassel’s upcoming album, Slow Death.
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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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