Gently glittering with a naked vulnerability, Ayelle’s new single Get Away puts the Swedish-Iranian songwriter’s vocals front and centre. With a delicately picked guitar, soft bass tones and subtle percussion, Ayelle’s chorus gets all the space it needs to create an emotional impact.
Get Away is the result of Ayelle struggling with the ability to define boundaries and avoid a repeating pattern of over-investment to the point of burnout. Ayelle explains:
“I wrote 'Get Away' from a place of frustration about the repeating patterns in my life and how I can't ever seem to stay in one place. It actually started out as a letter to the music industry and the way I'd been pouring myself into my work yet feeling like it was never enough. Then those feelings merged with that of a recent break up, and I realised that I sometimes feel similarly about my romantic relationships as I have with the music industry. (It’s) like I'm pouring all of my energy into something or someone until I reach a breaking point and have to step away from it all, or continue forward in a new direction, in search of replenishing my energy and restoring balance to my life.”
Having grown up in Sweden and Spain, Ayelle moved to London to pursue her passion for music, gaining support from a list that reads like a who’s who of music media and cultural commentary — Billboard, Pitchfork, 1Xtra, NYLON and Highsnobiety. Created with Swedish producer Pontus Persson, Get Away is taken from Ayelle’s upcoming project shadowselfluv, which is described as “a space for merging shadow work with self love”. She has previously appeared on BlackPlastic.co.uk with the beautiful Regrets.