The track is the first release from the artist’s upcoming debut album Vitamin Be.
With a decade of experience honing her thoughtful and deeply personal sound, Natalie Holmes has garnered a reputation for her deftness in all things introspective and vulnerable, with her tracks often having an affable, conversational feel in her cadence and delivery.
The latest addition to her arsenal is ‘Tricks’, a relatable and all too real release about this little mundane efforts and plans that the artist will try to come up with to fool herself into just feeling okay on a day to day basis. There is a really sobering honesty in the lyrics and initial, stripped-back arrangement, providing it with a starkness and a real sense of candour. The track builds to an unsettling and often unpredictable climax as the artist unravels, showcasing the complex depth of the artists sound and particularly her nuanced self-production. ‘Tricks’ is just a glimpse into the struggle that a lot of people go through day to day, and a track that articulates this so well, both within the lyrics and the anxiety of the arrangement, and goes some way towards creating these conversations about mental health that we so sorely need.
