As the sun goes down earlier and the nights become longer, I need music that makes me feel like slinking around the city streets like someone from The Fifth Element. I need the darker days to feel exciting, cool even. "The Idiot," the debut single from new London duo Cracked Lime, is a perfect addition to any sullen winter soundtrack.
The Tom Kellett-produced single features anxious guitar pings and pangs, shuffling percussion, and gothic vibes. It stealthily moves forward, but there's no grounding chorus. Only shadows of unease.
In a press release, Cracked Lime explained that the song was "written during a period of confusion, of feeling trapped in your own life with a drastic need for deep change. It’s an existential cry for authenticity in a normalised world, forever stirring the doubts and fears of those who don’t conform. It’s also the externalisation of internal fears: the fear of compromise, of losing our authenticity over materialconcerns, the fear of missing out."
Watch the music video below.
