The great thing about Single of the Week is that you can rely on it every week to shake off your Monday melancholy. It can get you in the right frame of mind to see you through the rest of the week, toward that glimmering ray of light in your life that is the weekend – unless you work weekends of course. That is, unless you were relying on it for that last week, wherein it remained entirely absent from Monday through Sunday, or this week where it’s now Wednesday and it’s only just arrived. I can only apologise, and offer you no explanation.
What I’ll do instead is just get on with the show, sans-grovelling, and offer up your latest Single of the Week. Sure, it’s late, but was it worth the wait? Yes. Yes it was.
Not only will you agree that it was worth the wait, but it is extra especially worth the wait because in waiting for it you’ve now had a treat that actually makes you ahead of the curve musically. This week’s single comes from a little known, but very talented, artist whom you shall be hearing before essentially everyone else. Thus cancelling out the absence of last week and lateness of this week, therefore meaning you require no apology from me because because. I win.
Moving on from my meandering to the music, the track comes from singer/songwriter Emily Marques and it’s actually her first single release. See? I told you you were getting someone special here, not quite exclusive but definitely a case of early bird catching the worm. The track itself – called ‘Old School Love’ – is a more than accomplished debut, boasting the confidence and song craft of a more established artist, as Marques manages to walk the line between tender, sorrowful balladry and anthemic, alternative pop. Something only emphasised by the pristine production on display here, slowly brooding its way through sparse beats and synths before bursting into the huge, stadium-ready chorus. Marques is of course the star of the show here, not just in her songwriting but in there vocal performance she delivers, lifting the track out of its melancholy into something impassioned and almost empowering.
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