The track is the most recent single from the artist’s upcoming new LP Ellipsis.
UK-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicki Wells has continued to prove herself over her initial releases, showcasing a delicate, endearing sound that has this impossibly powerful showstopping quality and charm.
The latest single from the artist is ‘Holy Smoke’, an intimate and insightful new release that packs this sense of alluring softness and power that the artist has made her own. The track melds rousing orchestral strings with the artist’s childhood piano, making for a sound that feels deeply poignant and sensitive throughout, as the artist explores grief and letting go in similarly emotional fashion. There is a really all-encompassing feel to Nicki Wells’ style, showcasing how with the right level of emotion and guile, less can often be so much more, soaring to almost transcendent heights with her stripped back sound. The track is the latest single from her upcoming album Ellipsis, and does a magical job of highlighting exactly what the artist is capable of.
Regarding the new single, Nicki Wells shares that: “Holy Smoke is about the process of grieving after loss. It explores the idea that with death can come a kind of grace. That there can be beauty in the relinquishment of gently letting go.”
