Odie Leigh takes stock of the person she has become on ‘Miss Leave Me Alone’, a buoyant indie-rock reflection on ambition, independence and the less appealing sides of the music industry. “Forced into a hiatus, I found myself constantly face to face with every mistake I’ve ever made,” Leigh explains, describing the song as a reflection on “the ego nursery that is the music industry”.
Distorted guitars and driving drums keep things upbeat and bouncy, creating an immediately catchy backdrop for considerably messier thoughts. Leigh’s conversational delivery carries shades of exhaustion and wry humour as she questions four years spent focusing on empty seats and whether she was ever good enough. The recurring transformation from “Miss Independent” into “Miss Leave Me Alone” provides the song’s sharpest hook, gradually revealing just how disconnected she has become from herself.
Its homemade visualiser matches that scrappy immediacy, cutting between Leigh playing guitar and dancing around her room and taking her frustrations outside for some target practice on cans. For all its self-recrimination, ‘Miss Leave Me Alone’ never wallows. Instead, Leigh turns an identity crisis into the kind of indie-rock toe-tapper that leaves your head nodding while its questions quietly linger.
