Indie rock and pop collide in Susie Maddocks's latest single, "About To Break," a song that is at once urgent and still, carrying you through waves of tension and release. Nestled at the crossroads of indie rock grit, indie pop accessibility, and alternative rock depth creates an experience just as layered as the emotions she delves into.
Maddocks renders "breaking," and the relationship between the two characters, which entails grief, but also a passion in its early stages, through several definitions broad from waves crashing to breakthroughs that we've waited for too long now, from symbolic dam breaking to the raw openness of a mother's initial labor pains. Every listening turns up a new angle, a fresh crack in the surface through which light rushes.
The production balances sparkling indie pop melodies with the unvarnished nature of alternative rock. "About To Break" is like a meditation on change, and catches that interstitial moment before everything moves, when possibility and confusion are in the air. It's a reminder of how we often understand a song or even ourselves until the right moment falls into place.