Sara Sloan’s new single “Hunted” is a siren’s call from the depths of the known knowns. The second you press play, you’re immersed in a realm with the interplay of shadow and light, with Sloan’s otherworldly vocals drawing you through a haunting, filmic soundscape.
“Hunted” is an experience, a reckoning. Sara Sloan weaves a metamorphosis narrative, shedding the skin of who she was even as she confronts the ghosts that persist. “Hunted” radiates a sinister hypnotic energy that invokes a balance between vulnerable rawness and otherworldly strength. The production is sweeping and intimate at once, with swirling synths and echoey beats echoing the turmoil within the “Hunted” heart.
Aesthetically, the accompanying music video is equally entrancing. Directed by Myles, it’s a neo-gothic western brought to life, thick with eerie landscapes and laden with symbolism. In the frame walks a lone horse, representing Sloan’s search for freedom, brave and wild but not free of the weight of burdens, unbridled but harnessed to some unseen tether. Each shot hovers like an echoless memory, lovely yet unsettling in equal parts.
When the chorus comes in, you just get taken down. It gets more intense, the weight of emotion flooding you in waves. Sloan’s voice is riveting, the pain of one who has stared into the abyss and come back across transformed but not unscarred.
If “Hunted” is anything to go by, Sara Sloan is creating a new zone that belongs only to her, and it’s a spooky zone and beguiling. And believe me, you’ll want to trail in her path wherever she’s going next.