Nashville indie pop artist Savanna Leigh bares her soul in “on your leisure,” a dreamy, spellbinding, and achingly uncooked diary entry of chaos, give up, and self-discovery.
Stream: “on your leisure” – Savanna Leigh
“With the solar in my eyes, I can’t see the place to go. By no means felt extra alive, purpose for the highs and study from the lows.”
In only a few strains, 25-year-old Savanna Leigh captures the radiant disarray of youth – confusion, give up, and the sudden freedom that comes from loosening your grip. Wrapped in glistening acoustic guitars, comfortable synths, delicate drums, and an eventual swell of horns, her phrases arrive like confessions too heavy to maintain inside. The result’s a diary entry set to dreamy music – a compelling portrait of early-20s chaos, interior reckoning, and sudden may. And in “on your leisure,” the Nashville-based singer/songwriter transforms life’s messiness into one thing spellbinding, soulful, and immediately unforgettable.
It’s candy, stirring, and comfortable – and in that softness, Savanna Leigh finds her power, confidently entering into her energy.
I’m turning off my thoughts
I can’t depend on instinct
I’m only a blurry line
Kinda prefer it
Spin me the wrong way up
I’ll be the star, your leisure
We’re kissing chaos now
Kinda prefer it
Do you prefer it when
it’s not your life that’s on show
get what you need then stroll away
possibly I ought to study to do the identical
Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “on your leisure,” the light but achingly uncooked title monitor off Savanna Leigh’s forthcoming EP, on your leisure, due later this yr. Following two earlier singles launched in 2025, this tune solidifies her place as one in every of indie pop’s most confessional and charming new voices – carrying ahead the intimacy that has outlined her nascent artistry whereas introducing a daring, spellbinding cinematic sweep.
“‘on your leisure,’ the title monitor of my new EP, was probably the most intentional tune I wrote for this venture,” Leigh tells Atwood Journal. “I wished it to tie collectively all of the feelings and themes that run by means of the opposite songs – self-discovery, heartbreak, resilience, and studying to let go of management. This complete venture is about determining who you might be in the midst of the messiness of life and your twenties, balancing expectations from everybody else whereas wanting to remain true to your self. It’s about embracing that chaos and discovering power in transferring by means of it authentically.”
“This EP is me coming to phrases with the concept whenever you loosen your grip on life – whenever you cease holding onto the assumption that your future and current are solely in your arms – you truly discover freedom. There’s one thing unexpectedly stunning on the opposite aspect of letting go.”
That spirit of give up pulses by means of the tune’s refrain, the place she sings:
with the solar in my eyes
I can’t see the place to go
by no means felt extra alive
purpose for the highs
and study from the lows
it’s all coming undone
so I’ll cease attempting to carry
on for my expensive life
possibly that’s nice
it’s a part of the present
Her lyrics double as a mantra – an anthem of resilience and changing into, one which captures the bittersweet, radiant disarray of youth. Lush, layered vocals ache in unison, mirroring the interior push-and-pull between management and launch, readability and confusion.
Leigh herself calls it a front-row seat to the circus in her head. “‘on your leisure’ is basically simply me navigating the messiness of my early twenties in actual time,” she explains. “It touches on themes of heartbreak, independence, craving, rising pains, greatest good friend breakups, and total what it means to come back again to your self in the midst of the entire chaos. I wished it to really feel like my followers or anybody listening is getting a entrance row seat to the circus in my head, however in a approach that’s self-aware, trustworthy, and authentically me… it’s actual however it doesn’t take itself too severely.”
all of my previous methods
recently I don’t even miss them
appears like half my mind
is detached
‘trigger it’s my life that’s on show
take what you need then stroll away
possibly i ought to study to do the identical
By the outro, when she sings, “and the lights activate and I’m on the stage / for the very first time I’m not afraid,” there’s no mistaking the breakthrough: concern changed by freedom, chaos reshaped into catharsis. “on your leisure” could also be constructed on fragile foundations, however in that fragility, Savanna Leigh has discovered her fireplace.
Savanna Leigh’s EP on your leisure arrives later this yr. Till then, let this stirring title monitor be your invitation to embrace your interior mess, loosen your grip, and discover magnificence in letting go. Stream “on your leisure” solely on Atwood Journal!
with the solar in my eyes
I can’t see the place to go
by no means felt extra alive
purpose for the highs
and study from the lows
it’s all coming undone
so I’ll cease attempting to carry
on for my expensive life
possibly that’s nice
it’s a part of the present
and the lights activate and I’m on the stage
for the very first time I’m not afraid
Of what you assume or what you’ll say
are you glad you got here?
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