Having taken most of 2019 out to focus on an album, SF-based queer pop musician Steph Wells is back with Sign.
The second single to be taken from the forthcoming album, Sign deals with the loss of control that comes from wanting more of someone than they can give you. It can be a disorientating experience - knowing that the reason you can’t have more may be nothing to do with you, and yet just needing some sort of sign that the other person knows you are still there and still matter.
Wells brings the emotion of Sign to bear in the most nakedly vulnerable way I’ve heard on a SUMif record… The openness with which she expresses her emotional needs leaves a lasting impression, as the instrumentation gently stutters, simple and equally exposed. It’s an impressing demonstration of the range we can expect from the album - slower, more considered and, frankly, sadder than most of what we get from SUMif.