Shimmering with an 80s soft-focus aesthetic, Jill Blutt’s new single, When I Grace Yr Mantelpiece, is the third and final single to be taken from a forthcoming EP.
With the EP’s first single receiving exposure on Spotify’s Fresh Finds and Fresh Finds Indie playlists, When I Grace Yr Mantelpiece is poised to create further momentum for Blutt’s EP. Spectral vocals feel otherworldly, floating transparently against cools synths and crunchy percussion. The song acts as a plea for success, with unashamedly honest lyrics that ask, ‘please, please make me famous, or I might, quite possibly, die’.
Despite the thematic transparency, When I Grace Yr Mantelpiece has a layered depth to it. The production and instrumentation here creates a dream-like sense of possibility — like waking up and not being quite sure if the glimpsed thrill of success was real or a dream. The song’s bridge, at the one-and-a-half-minute-mark, is particularly wonderful — a lightly textured moment where the bass drops away to reveal Blutt more fully, navigating a maze of ambition.