Today, London rising artist CHINCHILLA has shared long-awaited stunning new single ‘Avoidance’. The ballad opens on a moment in CHINCHILLA’s life where she felt paralysed by anxiety; overwhelmed by relentless industry noise, she juggled the demands of the world whilst navigating a turbulent heartbreak. After she received a triggering text whilst headed to a writing session, within 45 minutes, ‘Avoidance’ was born. Today’s release is the first from a trilogy of songs to be shared by CHINCHILLA this summer.

Speaking about ‘Avoidance’, CHINCHILLA says, “I wrote this when I was in a period of a lot of stress/burn out – I released ‘Little Girl Gone’ and it was viral and changing my life and I was running the project completely alone, no time to eat/sleep etc… I was also going through this break up and on my way to a writing session I received a message that sent me into an anxiety attack. I kept thinking ‘noooo I can’t feel like this right now’ which I guess made it worse.

“I felt like I could handle everything music wise however big or small – But I couldn’t handle facing the pain my heart was feeling behind those distractions, it was really excruciating to be honest.. I guess at that time I felt frozen and couldn’t respond at all – all I wanted to do was avoid it all and put my head under the duvet until it went away. I didn’t know how to cope with the anxiety of it all. I arrived at my writing session and although we were meant to work on another song, the feeling was overbearing and all I could do in that moment was write about this. We wrote and recorded it in 45 minutes and I’ve always been really attached to the song capturing a really raw moment. No lyric was rewritten, it was just a real bleed of emotions. When finishing the song we tried everything to build up the production but nothing felt like it had the magic of the original version – so the final song is mainly just that.”