Taste Test: Gillian Nicola finds her way out with ‘Half Way’
The folk singer-songwriter harpoons a toxic relationships with a new galloping song.
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Manipulation in a relationship clogs the veins as if pouring Elmer’s sticky glue directly into the bloodstream. You dig your fingernails into the infected layers, but the only way out is to gut the disease completely and dump its carcass on the side of the road. Feeling the pressure rise, Canadian singer-songwriter Gillian Nicola brandishes her pen for a venomous upheaval in which she reclaims her dignity and self-worth. “Half Way,” a simmering slow-cooker that erupts into glorious redemption, etches a relationship’s dire, quickly-collapsing state ⏤ and as she feels the beams shatter in two above her, Nicola slips out just in the knick of time only to witness the debris crash and scrape the foundation. “Hey stranger, take the knife out of my back / I’m through with games and always hiding what you lack,” she bellows, her vocal tearing up into a tower-tumbling yodel. With a flourish, she gathers up her belongings and hits the dusty trail with a new sense of purpose.
“Half Way” is the follow-up to last month’s “Night Comes to Call.”
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