Over dreamy guitars and misty, kaleidoscopic cymbals, singer-songwriter Chloe Jobin lays her pain bare.
On her new single “Licking My Wounds,” Jobin stages a quiet fight for growth and personal healing, set against an intense battle with grief and heartbreak.
“You and me, we weren’t built to last/Time moves slow, but also fast/Do you feel the love that I’m sending?” she asks with a hushed plea.
Across the track’s brief runtime (just under three minutes), Jobin keeps telling herself that everything will eventually be fine — even if she sounds only half-convinced.
The instrumentation leaves plenty of room for Jobin’s ethereal vocals to breathe. The guitars begin with a soft hum before cascading into a pronounced crescendo in the final minute, mirroring the emotional swell beneath her delivery.
“Licking My Wounds” pulls no emotional punches. There’s no sense of closure here. Instead, Jobin finds a fragile self-acceptance amid the wreckage:
“It’s okay that the world is ending,” she sighs in one of the song’s opening lines.
Listen to “Licking My Wounds” here: http://tinyurl.com/4be63z9u
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