London dream-pop trio Just Like Honey return with ‘Laugh about it’, a glittering, hazy beauty. Long celebrated for their cinematic arrangements and tender emotional undercurrents, the band once again merges the delicate with the expansive, creating something that feels both intimate and vast.
Led by Emily, whose vocals balance whispered vulnerability with a lingering ache, Just Like Honey has a knack for making music that seems to glow from within. ‘Laugh about it’ drifts between shoegaze guitar tones, grunge-edged texture, and dreamy pop warmth, a song that hovers and floats weightlessly even as it lands right in the heart.
Buoyed by swirling guitar lines and a slow, smouldering emotional swell, the single reflects on the practiced smiles we wear over knots of uncertainty, fear, and sadness.
“‘Laugh about it’ floats like a daydream underwater, nostalgic and vulnerable,” says the band. “It’s about keeping up the façade when everything shakes beneath the surface. It’s a bittersweet anthem for the beautifully broken, for anyone who’s ever faked being okay.”
The song’s origins were humble, just Emily and an acoustic guitar, but it morphed through several forms, travelling with her across different projects before settling into its final shape during a Somerset recording session with producer Pete Robertson. The finished track feels both familiar and freshly unearthed, like remembering an old memory only half-known.
With ‘Laugh about it’, Just Like Honey continue carving out their quietly radiant corner of the indie landscape, inviting listeners not to outrun their emotions but to hold them softly. It’s the kind of song that lingers long after its final chord, glowing like afternoon light through gauzy curtains, tender, wistful, and true.
