We are inordinately proud to review the shimmering new track ‘Wild For Change’ from New Zealand artist Lilly Carron, whose voice has a diaphanous delicacy, ethereal and filled with a yearning passion. The track has a Lynchian air about it with its scything reverbed guitar riffs and the almost western Sergio Leone blush augmented by the distant wild vocalising.
Carron’s delivery is like some torch song chanteuse in a late night smoke-filled dive, with a bacchanalian air and a world weariness in her tone. Carron says of the track:
At its core, ‘Wild For Change’ is about wanting to run away. To jump on a train and watch the landscape change, to slowly get further away from the mundane and the responsibilities handed to us in our early 20s.
The wistful air is compounded by the lyrics, as Carron observes:
The line ‘I am the only one in the way’ is my favourite on the track. I am capable of transforming my life. I can make changes so that I don’t feel the need to dream of faraway places, even though I will never truly stop dreaming.
It’s a beautiful, haunting track and imbued with far more presence and pose than you would expect of such a young artist. Carron is certainly a rising and shimmering star in the firmament.
‘Wild For Change is out tomorrow through Sony Music New Zealand (Friday, 2 February) and can be accessed through the link above and pre-saved here. It comes off Carron’s forthcoming sophomore EP, ‘And The Clouds Came Undone’.
Fresh out of high school, Lilly Carron released her first single ‘Evaporate The Rain’ in 2019, followed by her debut EP messy mind in 2020. Exploring her own coming-of-age and that of those around her, she was described as an artist whose ‘material clips close to the bone for those of us growing up in the millenia.’ And that proved to connect, amassing over 6 million streams and rave reviews.
Fast forward to 2023, she finds herself looking back and thinking “you were such a little baby!”, an artist who didn’t like to be alone but knew it was necessary in order to grow. Her new music was born in those years of self-reflection and the whirlwind of emotion that ensued; moments of celebration, frustration, escapism, healing, losing hope and finding it all over again.
