An underrated voice of a generation, Grace Potter unleashes the groovy “Losing You” to the world. With a rhythmic, static-y base, the track falls through a star-strewn sky like a meteorite. “Am I losing you?” she loops together. “Because the tips of my fingers are turning blue / Tell me, honey, tell my true / The love I was sending got lost somewhere / Do you hear my honey / Do you even care?”
The emotion pours thick from her honeyed rasp like dynamite. The love that once pulsated between lovers reaches its smoky end, as a candle losing oxygen and fading into a black trail. A smattering of percussion drives the song forward, the lyrics lurching toward the horizon. Potter transmits the story as only she can do — her lips curled and the vocals soaring over the melody.
“Losing You” serves as the last song written before heading into the studio with industry titan T Bone Burnett. “Once we got into the studio and I heard us all playing together, I fully understood the soundscape we were existing in,” Potter says in a press statement. “The demo I made had a ‘Midnight Rider’ vibe, but when we started to play, the band elevated it to a different atmosphere entirely and allowed my voice to soar and for the lyrics to cut in a deeper and far more meaningful way.”
“Losing You” samples Potter’s forthcoming new album, Medicine, out everywhere on May 30.
Listen to “Losing You” below.
Photo Credit: James Mountford
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