Even in the deepest darkest of winter, the sun always shines brighter when Greta Stanley unveils one of her gorgeous tracks, and her new single ‘When You Call’ is absolutely blinding. Boosted to stratospheric heights by her velvet vocals, ‘When You Call’, recorded with producer Adib Parker (aka Cheekbone), is a smooth eloquent slice of sparkling pop with its transcendent chorus and the shimmering instrumentation. Stanley’s songwriting prowess is exponentially growing into a mature body of work: layered, intricate and nuanced.
Stanley says of the track:
‘When You Call’ is about a love that showed up when you didn’t expect it to, when you’ve been burnt, and you’ve had to push to be noticed or constantly second guessing in the past. It’s about the feeling you get when something is new, and then in time, it being something certain, that kind of makes you realise, ‘shit, what was I doing with all these other people who made me work so hard for their love?’
We drew inspiration from billie eilish, K-flay and holly humberstone.
We actually spent a lot of time going back and forth on this song, the ‘when you call line’ I initially had as a verse, and after two days of headaches, Adib just suddenly said, ’When you call has to be the chorus!’ and the song just came together when we made that shift, and he was right!
While the sources of inspiration are admirable and may be detectable in the genetic strands of the song, Stanley has her own glittering style: a voice that would melt ice with a single note, and yet there’s a steely spine to the music that is dramatic and ethereal at the same time:
Sublime stuff. ‘When You Call’ is out now through the esteemed Double Drummer label and available to download and stream here.
It comes with welcome news that a third album is on the way in September.
