Taste Test: Mousey snakes through pain with new song, ‘Take Me to Harley Street’
The folk arrival truly impresses with her second-ever career single.
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There’s always beauty in melancholy. Without the dull ache of misery throbbing in our chest, we can never fully or appropriately appreciate the healing agents that bring us solace. Meandering between muted tones of piano, trickling down as tears onto hardwood, New Zealander Mousey (real name Sarena Close) sluggishly drags her feet through five years of breakups and breakdowns, her heart stitched on her sweater. “Somebody help me find my way home,” her voice is thick as maple syrup, coloring with dark supple shades of amber that is as haunting as it is necessary. The song clocks in at well over four minutes, but you never get the sense it’s an overwrought, terribly overdramatic performance. No, in fact, it somehow dazzles in the sunlight that is sweetly kissing through the overgrown foliage above her head. Soon, she will have found what she needed; but for now, she pulls the pain closer to her chest.
“Take Me to Harley Street” is Mousey’s second-ever single.
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