The artist’s third single sees her continue to establish her unique sound.
Following the release of the well-received ‘Touch’ and ‘Fucking Retrograde’, Los Angeles native Lianna Vanicelli is back with ‘Sometimes’, the third single released under her Xelli Island monicker.
The track echoes the ethereal and light-hearted atmosphere of its predecessors but with a darker underbelly that looms beneath the surface of the track. Its playful and poppy synths and percussion juxtapose a much darker and somber narrative, these contracts create a unique and perplexing cocktail of emotions and leaves you not really sure how to feel, in a thought-provoking and nuanced way.
“On the surface it’s a song about falling in and out of depression and how much that shifts our perspective from day to day, when we’re feeling fragile and when things in our life don’t go the way that we planned,” shares Vanicelli of how ‘Sometimes’ came to be. “I wrote it during one of the darkest periods of my life when everything I’d been working towards had fallen apart unexpectedly and I had to start over. “I had a hard time finding strength to rebuild myself and to push on because some days you don’t feel your purpose.
“What I wanted to convey lyrically is that everyone is struggling in some way no matter how ‘together’ they seem to have it; there’s always more going on beneath the surface,” Vanicelli continues.“Sometimes you get lost for a lot longer than you expect to be, but your darkness doesn’t define you and all you can keep trying to do is pull yourself up even when it feels impossible.”
