There’s a liminal silence that follows heartbreak.
It’s not the traditional kind, but the one that hums quietly beneath the surface, where absence becomes texture. Nathaniel Earl’s new single “i’m alone” sits precisely in that space. It’s a song that doesn’t rush to fill the void, but instead traces the slow pulse of solitude until it begins to sound like something close to peace.
Built from vaporous synths, falsetto sighs, and a heartbeat that blurs the line between human and machine, “i’m alone” feels like it’s breathing underwater. There’s gentle, circular movement, as if memory itself is looping in slow motion. Earl’s voice, suspended between confession and surrender, guides us through that moment when longing softens into understanding. Set to strike a chord with those drawn to the emotional architecture of M83 or the psychedelic tenderness of Tame Impala, it’s a song that’ll make the listener’s heart ache and soul levitate simultaneously.
As the second single from his forthcoming album “What Follows What Remains”, “i’m alone” expands Earl’s ongoing dialogue between the grandiose and the intimate. The record promises an unbroken arc through grief, ego death, and renewal. It’s set to be a collection of songs that don’t simply narrate emotion but embody it, shifting like light across water.
Earl’s background in film composition and orchestral design is everywhere in his work: from his score for the NAACP-nominated If They Took Us Back to his collaborative performances with Bayonne and the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Yet here, stripped of spectacle, his craft has reached new heights. “i’m alone” isn’t about despair, but rather about what remains when the noise subsides. In that quiet, Earl finds not emptiness, but the gentle persistence of life continuing on. It’s safe to say that his album is going to be wonderful.
Stream “i’m alone” here.
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