Naarm/Melbourne musician Tilly Vickers Willis (TVW) has shared entrancing new single ‘Aching Never Leaves’, taken from her upcoming debut album Silver Halide Film out Friday, April 17, independently.

The brooding, Portishead-reminiscent track, created in collaboration with Morgan Wright of Acopia and produced by Dean Tuza (Stella Donnelly) is about someone completely snowed under by grief, desperately holding onto the feeling because the ache is proof that love was once there.

TVW shares, “It’s written in the moment of grief, from the perspective of someone who’s really in it. They’re trying to hold onto that, to stay in the heightened state of love and connection, but it’s not a sustainable thing. You have to find a way to let go.”

She adds, “I was interested in Fado music, which is a style of Portuguese music centred around the word ‘Saudade’ (which translates ‘music as a sweet longing/longing you love to feel’).”