One of indie-rock's stars, Mary Middlefield, just released her latest single, "The Feast." The song will continue to resonate long after its notes have ceased. Out now on all streaming services, the tune delves deep into the ache of longing, probing the fragile balance between devotion and self-erasure with a striking, almost thrilling feel.
"The Feast" plays like a private confession put to music, intimate, unprocessed, and unsparing. Middlefield herself has said that the song is about a love so powerful it hurts to want, and renders your soul in quiet surrender of desire's conquest above self-preservation. It's a portrait of romance, desperate and tragic, but also indelibly lovely, one that resonates for anyone who has ever given themselves completely over to someone unwilling or unable to return such intensity.
Middlefield's voice hovers gracefully over rock, pop, and classical with the sound as timeless as it is current. The track's eerie melody and its whispering crescendos create a feeling of suspense, perhaps mirroring the emotional weight of this tale.
In "The Feast," Mary Middlefield establishes herself as a songwriter who can articulate the knotty details of human desire in music that is as smart as it is lovely. It's a song for those who occupy the middle distance between wanting and having, a reminder that even in love denied, art can turn openness into something rhapsodic.
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