Leeds singer songwriter Molly Rymer has released a second single from her forthcoming 4-track EP project called ‘Alone When The Lights Come On’. Molly says that each track follows themes of identity, reflection, and denial often with the narrator questioning their reality. So this might be quite a deep collection. Earlier this year Rymer released “City Half Awake” with her full band. It is one of her older songs and benefits from a deeper musical bed and some gorgeous fiddle.
The new single is called “Lie” and it reached the world on 3rd April. The song starts slow and soft with minimal instrumentation and slowly builds into a song with huge cinematic level depth and organisation. Lyrically Molly cleverly plays the dual meaning of the word contrasting the “speaking untruthfully with intent to mislead or deceive” definition with the separate meaning of simply lying down with someone. I think this might be Molly’s strongest vocal so far in her career. The emotion in her voice is palpable and it suggests that this is a kind of relationship that she has lived through. Ultimately it feels like it is about hanging on to a relationship when you know it really isn’t working nor going to work
I am looking forward even more to the EP now. I also still need to see Molly Rymer play live. I hope that will happen soon!
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