I listened to 2mindsas1’s “Slow Motion Car Crash” a few times before trying to put my thoughts together, and honestly the song feels like someone telling you a story they didn’t plan to tell. Released on the 5th of December, 2025, Rory Flynn sings it in this almost conversational way, like he’s shrugging through the details of a date that just… didn’t work. Not a dramatic disaster, just one of those nights where things feel slightly off from the start and never quite straighten out. I like that he doesn’t exaggerate anything, it’s very down-to-earth.
The music behind him has this steady, almost gentle push. Yannis Masouras doesn’t crowd the track at all, which I appreciate, because a lot of indie songs try to drown you in guitars. Here it’s more like the instruments are giving the story room. You can hear hints of the stuff they both grew up on — the slightly gloomy indie feel of Suede or Editors but nothing about it feels copied. It’s more that they’re comfortable in that space, the way people are with music they’ve lived around for years.
What I liked most is how the song picks up the tiny moments that make a date fall apart. A weird silence, saying something that comes out wrong, those little shifts in energy you can’t fix once they happen. The song doesn’t turn any of it into a big emotional breakdown. It just lays it out the way real life feels: a bit awkward, a bit funny afterwards, but still something you remember.
If this is the first taste of what they’re planning for 2025, it makes me curious to hear more. The whole thing feels honest and unforced, like two musicians who aren’t trying to prove anything. “Slow Motion Car Crash” isn’t flashy, but it feels real and that’s probably why it sticks.
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