Taste Test: Callum Pitt begs you to ‘Slow My Heart Rate Down’
The folk newcomer wields his voice and acoustic guitar for an astonishing story on anxiety.
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Wading through anxiety is like swimming in quicksand. The more you flail your arms and legs, the further you sink into the ground and lose all sense of self. Sweat beads on your brow, and your heartbeat quickens to a hummingbird’s pace. Indie-folk upstart Callum Pitt mimics the downward spiral and eventual bottoming out with a new song. Key track “Slow My Heart Rate Down” begins at a tepid degree before crescendoing, the heat rising in his bloodstream, before the clash of anxious impulses drag him far below the surface and swallow his body whole. He manages to wriggle free at the last moment but not before the damage has already been done. “Come be here now / Slow my heart down / Stop it rolling, snowballing,” he gasps bubble breaths, which only barely escape his suffocated lungs. In the final moments, after the anxiety as lifted as a curtain in the night, he floats up and away out of the darkness.
“Slow My Heart Rate Down” is lifted from Pitt’s new EP, Poisoned Reveries, out everywhere now.
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