Norfolk, VA trio Wyteshayds are prepping a new album for release later this year, but are building soft-bulletin momentum through a trickle release of the band’s trademark indie-dream slow dancers.
After first debuting “Slow Climb” on PopMatters, Wyteshayds are partnering with Crave to debut their next single “Is That Her,” a morphine drip of beauty in a Cocteau Twins vein which calls back to the band’s early sessions.
“This was one of the first songs we wrote as a group,” singer Jacki Paolella tells Crave, “and it was one of my favorites to write because it flowed out almost effortlessly from a guitar riff that Brett had been working on. I love the drums in this track because I feel like the beat is just as catchy as the main vocal melody, which almost has a supporting role to the guitar and bass riffs in certain moments of the song.”
The sense of unsteady hope trying to stay afloat in a sea of poignance in “Is That Her” is no accident. “The lyrics are, in one way, about overhearing someone talking about you, and how it can make you feel both insignificant and important simultaneously,” Paolella continues. “The phrase ‘is that her’ can be interpreted in so many ways, and the melancholic but hopeful tone of the song allows the phrase to be gazed upon in more than one type of light.”
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