Remorse lingers like smoke within the air on Lucette’s “Too Quickly for Sorry,” a haunting late-night confession wrapped in a haze of longing and self-destruction – and the most recent single taken off her upcoming EP, ‘Good Lady from the Suburbs.’
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I want I allow you to in as an alternative of letting you down…
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Regret lingers like smoke within the air on “Too Quickly for Sorry,” a haunting late-night confession wrapped in a haze of longing and self-destruction.
With its melancholic melodies and aching lyricism, Lucette’s newest single captures the heavy weight of unresolved feelings – the type that hit hardest within the quiet hours earlier than daybreak. By a soulful, seductive mix of ’90s dream pop, different rock, and Americana, the Canadian singer/songwriter crafts a deeply private but universally relatable story of missed probabilities and lingering ghosts, the place each whispered want and damaged apology feels as uncooked as an open wound.
Hazy summer time breeze
Drifting by way of the bushes
And also you’re on my thoughts
God I’m such a large number
I overthink I assume
I’m dropping it this time
I want that you simply had been
right here proper now
I want I allow you to in
as an alternative of letting you down
Oh, it’s 4 within the morning
and too quickly for sorrys
Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Too Quickly for Sorry,” the third single taken off Lucette’s upcoming EP, Good Lady from the Suburbs (out March twenty first by way of Prairie Blue Data). Following latest singles “Again within the Blue” (that includes Mariel Buckley) and “Heading for the Finish,” the brooding “Too Quickly for Sorry” finds Lucette (aka Lauren Gillis) dwelling at nighttime, dramatic, and dreamy depths of heartache and remorse as she finds herself eager for an ex in the course of the night time, her misplaced love lingering in each the center and the thoughts regardless of her being the one to name issues off.
“I want that you simply had been right here proper now,” she sings within the track’s emotionally charged refrain, her voice scorching on the mic as she lets her guard down in a poignant second of reality and vulnerability. “I want I allow you to in as an alternative of letting you down.”
All too usually, we don’t know what we’ve obtained till it’s gone.
“‘Too Quickly for Sorry’ is a traditional story of undervaluing somebody whilst you have them,” Lucette tells Atwood Journal. “It’s about wanting them much more within the aftermath of a breakup. Listening to their identify by way of informal acquaintances, over cigarettes outdoors of the bar, and wishing they had been there as an alternative of listening to how they’re doing from a stranger.”
“I feel quite a lot of us have been there. It’s about admitting while you’re the issue in a breakup, wishing you can repair it, however figuring out it’s too quickly to heal that wound, and too quickly for sorrys.”
Smoking cigarettes
Somebody mentioned they met you
Down on the east facet
I might’ve sworn
You’d be gone by way of the fourth
No less than that’s what you mentioned
I want that you simply had been
right here proper now
I want I allow you to in
as an alternative of letting you down
Oh, it’s 4 within the morning
and too quickly for sorrys
The follow-up to Lucette’s acclaimed 2019 album Deluxe Resort Room, the six-track Good Lady from the Suburbs sees her at her most autobiographical, emotive, and candid – working with producer Soren Hansen (New Politics, Elle King, Sam Palladio) to create music that cuts to the core of her personal humanity, intimately aching in and out. With artists like Fiona Apple and Sheryl Crow, Pixies and Mazzy Star as her ‘north stars,’ Lucette’s newest songs mix her unapologetic, deep-diving introspections with lush, larger-than-life sounds that make even probably the most unusual moments – regretting a breakup, as an example – really feel extraordinary.
“I feel Good Lady From the Suburbs particularly speaks to the ‘90s child in me – pulling from that pop and different music with these large choruses,” Lucette says. “It felt like the appropriate area for me to exist in my present level of my life, like an amalgamation of all the pieces I’ve completed up thus far whereas additionally a launchpad for the following factor.”
As for the inspiration behind her songwriting, she provides, “These songs are each recognizing that darkish place and recognizing that I didn’t actually assist myself to get out of that darkish place.”
It doesn’t matter what I say
You’ve heard all of it 100 instances
And it’s even worse
Coming from a stranger’s eyes
It doesn’t matter what I do
Even when I alter
All my demons stay
They usually name your identify
As the ultimate echoes of “Too Quickly for Sorry” fade into the quiet darkness, Lucette leaves us suspended in that stressed area between longing and closure.
From its gentle, atmospheric entrance to the frenzy of “searing, fuzzed out guitar wails” (her phrases) that mark its finale, “Too Quickly for Sorry” is a spirited, soul-stirring fever dream: The form of cathartic confessional that sends shivers down the backbone, all whereas bringing us into the room with Lucette as she channels her ache right into a passionate launch.
It’s a track for late-night drives, for staring on the ceiling at 4 AM, and for the ghosts of affection that refuse to be forgotten.
Stream the brand new single completely on Atwood Journal, and be looking out for Lucette’s lovely (and brutally sincere) Good Lady From the Suburbs, set to launch March 21st!
Smoky, soulful, and steeped in remorse, “Too Quickly for Sorry” lingers like an unsent message – aching, unresolved, and unimaginable to shake.
I want that you simply had been right here proper now
(want that you simply had been right here)
I want I allow you to in as an alternative of letting you down
Oh (want that you simply had been right here)
I want that you simply had been right here proper now
(want that you simply had been right here)
I want I allow you to in as an alternative of letting you down
Oh, it’s 4 within the morning
and too quickly for sorrys
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