If you were a fan of Lizzy McAlpine’s “ceilings” or Indigo De Souza’s “Younger & Dumber”, this song is for you.

Jethwa’s background wasn’t always in music— she initially dedicated a significant amount of time to various styles of dance training. Despite also having an interest in music and writing melodies on the side, she didn’t consider herself particularly skilled in music (we would tend to disagree!). However, as she pursued full-time dance studies in college, she discovered a waning passion for dance and a growing attraction to music. Now, she emphasizes a desire for rhythm and emotion in her songs, attributing her dance background to her preference for music that can be physically or emotionally engaging.

With a gentle acoustic guitar and simple, floating, haunting melody, Jethwa plunges us into that inimitable feeling of anxiety that comes with new love and crushes without being too bleak. With the guitar leading and passing along the melody line over to Jethwa, there is a grounded, yet still ethereal feeling about the way the instruments blend in this track. The space left by a more acoustic sound leaves room for the listener to feel and reflects the hollowness of the feeling Jethwa sings about.

Throughout her songs, Jethwa’s lyricism focuses on escapism usually from a lover who has wronged her. She “Dreams of Running” and has “been running around”. This song is no different, following Jethwa on a train as she is physically moving away from the moment, but stuck inside it in her head. It’s heartbreaking, it’s wistful, it’s so relatable.