Along with her theatre roots, New Jersey-bred vulnerability, and a self-diagnosed tendency to really feel an excessive amount of, Amanda Gabriel builds whole sonic topographies from emotion. In At all times Higher, her girl-next-door demureness sharpens the blow of her emotional candour. The one pulls you beneath with infectiously seraphic progressions, tinged with a mild nod to 90s and 00s pop, whereas retaining one eye mounted on the horizon.
The manufacturing elevates the songwriting to stratospheric heights. What begins with a dreamy, cloudlike environment slowly tightens its grip as jangly guitar chops carve by way of the softness. It’s delicate with out being breakable, with Gabriel’s dynamic vocal vary gliding over the instrumental with glassy, diaphanous harmonies that really feel fragile and unshakable.
Lyrically, At all times Higher distils emotional chaos into readability, transferring by way of magnificence, confusion, ache, and longing with out over-explaining or overstating. From the primary verse, the sentimental pull is inescapable, and by the ultimate word, you’ll know exactly what she meant—even when she by no means instructed you outright.
Her debut EP, additionally titled At all times Higher, made a robust first mark in early summer season 2024, with the title monitor climbing to #16 on the aBreak58 chart and incomes a slot on their radio station and playlist.
At all times Higher is now obtainable to stream on all main platforms, together with Spotify.
Overview by Amelia Vandergast