ALMOST MORNING – halfen feels less like a debut and more like a private document cracked open, across its seven tracks Almost Morning builds a world that is sparse, nocturnal, and emotionally unguarded. The production is minimal, but it never feels empty. Instead, every bass pulse and vocal fragment carries intention, as if silence itself is part of the arrangement. “Talk to you” stands at the emotional core of the EP. Written during a period of burnout, it captures the numbness that sets in when communication feels like a chore rather than a comfort. In “Talk to you,” she repeats the disarming line, “I don’t want to talk, to them to you to me, tell them I’m unfair to you to me,” a fractured confession that spirals inward. The looping vocal line circles relentlessly, mirroring the way certain thoughts refuse to loosen their grip. There’s weight in the sub-bass and restraint in the percussion, but what lingers most is the atmosphere — suspended, unresolved, and honest about its distance.
One of the most cutting moments on “Let it” arrives in the line, “Hearts don’t heal, they just break. If it all comes down, I’ll let it.” It’s a stark admission of emotional fatigue. The lyric captures the song’s core tension between fragility and surrender, suggesting that sometimes acceptance isn’t about hope, but about releasing control when there’s nothing left to hold together. In “Sad!”, she distills self-confrontation into the cutting line, “Built a house of mirrors, now it feels like a maze,” a vivid metaphor for the way reflection can quickly turn into disorientation, where every version of yourself is visible, but none offers a clear way out.
On “H8 missing you,” she repeats the line “hate missing you, and I’m stuck missing you, guess I overdone it” as a raw admission of regret, a moment where frustration, longing, and self-blame collapse into one painfully honest refrain. “In ‘4ever as one,’ Almost Morning captures a longing for closeness and unity, asking, “Will you stay here, I want to be as one, forever as one.” In ‘Ouroboros,’ Almost Morning captures a quiet intensity, portraying someone who moves deliberately but strikes with surprising force, a tension that repeats and lingers throughout the track. “she move slow , but she bite back, bite back , bite back”
With “Wake” Almost Morning closes the EP with a raw, unfiltered confession, cycling through emotions of frustration, longing, and confusion — pleading to be awakened, broken, hated, or even saved, while simultaneously rejecting peace and admitting a struggle to grasp love. “wake me yeah, break me yeah , hate me , save me yeah, I don’t need peace , I don’t know love” Almost Morning isn’t chasing hooks or easy catharsis. She’s interested in mood, tension, and the quiet spaces people usually avoid. The result is an EP that feels deeply personal, carefully constructed, and confidently restrained.
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