Natalie Langer is back with a stunning new track, “In Another Lifetime,” a gently weeping ballad that traverses the fine line between love and moving on. It’s clear from the first note that Langer has a real gift for music. She pulls her audience into an alternate universe where emotion and melody are woven together in a kind of heartfelt meditation on what it feels like to love someone you can’t be with, that is to say, at least not in this lifetime.
The song opens like a hushed admission, soaked with the bittersweet beauty of timing gone impossible. Langer’s voice is full of emotion, soft but firm as she sings lyrics that are somehow both very personal and impossible not to feel out in the world around you. There’s a gorgeous intimacy in her performance, and every word is freighted with the memory of feelings that linger long after the last chord has dissolved.
“In Another Lifetime” marries smoky, rumpled piano lines with bolstering production, expanding and contracting like the tides of an unsaid farewell. The arrangement allows for every breath, every sigh, providing Langer’s voice the space to tell its story. It’s the kind of song that doesn’t simply play, it lingers, reverberating in all those still moments when whatever is gone feels closest.
"In Another Lifetime" is, at its core, a love letter to what could have been a song for all those who’ve ever had the right person at the wrong time, according to Substream. Langer catches that fragile hope that perhaps, just maybe, somewhere over this moment’s horizons, that love will finally settle.