Nashville artist Savannah Conley released her new single, “Never Want to Be in Love,” last month and we haven’t stopped spinning it since. Following up on her 2018 debut EP, Twenty-Twenty, this track breaks away from Conley’s stripped down crooning akin to the early work of Lucy Rose and Laura Marling and amplifies the raw emotion she’s known for with a mesmerizing grit.
There’s a drowsy, head spinning euphoria to “Never Want to Be in Love.” Conley cuts through the gentle beginnings of a fever dream with rebellious cries of resistance in the chorus, surrendering to emotion in syrupy lilt to round the hook out. She throws caution to the wind, her voice complimented by a swell of evolved instrumentation absent from her prior work with lyrics that appeal to all who have tried to defy the throes of reluctant love.
Conley effortlessly mixes and matches genres throughout her new single. Her popular descriptor as the “Southern Mazzy Star” is spot on, with notes of Jeff Buckley’s guitar in the verses and Beach House melodies in the chorus, all sprinkled with an Americana-tinged charm on top.
As summer temperatures heat up and we mourn a lost festival season, Conley gives us the manic-yet-soothing, reckless abandon, hands-through-the-sunroof road trip we wish we were on right now.
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