Out now alongside an OD Blank-directed video, the song sees singer Zayna Youssef wrestling with  anxiety and overthinking. “I kept seeing a cigarette and how every slow drag  fills you up with literal death, but the exhale feels so good–the irony of how  something that feels good is so bad for you. There are countless things in my  life I take a deeeep, slow drag from that really don’t benefit me, these habits  have a short term satisfaction but the long term effect can be just one big  slowburn,” she explains.

“The song and video explore anxiety disguised  as cameras and their constant surveillance. A snapshot into the mind of someone  who overthinks to the point of ‘seeing things’ that may not even be there.  Whether I am battling confidence or bad habits, overthinking can be so  habitual. It kind of traps you in this circular purgatory which you find me  running in and out of.”

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“This is the first song we completed for Still There’s A Glow. At that time, I was feeling a bit…indulgent. Taking what I want, whenever I wanted it, and disregarding the world all at the same time. I felt like my self worth was cheap, and that I had no boundaries as a healthy person. I quite literally had no self control,” she explains of ‘No Control,’ out now alongside a Johnny Komar-directed video. “This song is sort of my way to rock bottom. It is my fancy way of calling myself a pushover, unconfident, and ungrateful. I had this ‘grass is always greener’ kind of mentality and wanted more when I already had it and then some.”

Still There’s a Glow is a hard-fought document of self-reflection and growth–raw and real, and stacked with lyrical honesty. Written and recorded in the wake of a whirlwind three years following their 2022 debut LP, Where the Heart Is–and after scrapping essentially an entire album’s worth of demos–Still There’s a Glow is a dynamic, cathartic journey of making conscious change within oneself. “I went through some depression last spring, and then I went into therapy. It was also a big turning point in my life as I was about to turn 30, while I’d written our first record when I was graduating from college–that’s a big change,” Youssef explains. “I could’ve kept making bad choices because they’re easy, but I had to come clean to myself. Half the album was written before and the other half after, so the songs are kind of hard on myself but some are also hopeful, with a light at the end of the tunnel. You put out a fire, there’s still an ember that’s still glowing–that’s the record. It’s about being at a low and climbing out of it.”

Still There’s A Glow:

1. Sunblind
2. Shameless
3. No Control
4. Glow
5. Slow Burn
6. Smoke Screen
7. What the Devil Is Selling
8. Makes Me Sick
9. Rotten
10. Jinx
11. Tough Love
12. Holding On
13. Letting Go

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