Colorado native Stevie Wolf made waves towards the end of 2017 with his single Who which put him on the map of fans and tastemakers alike. After being rejected by Atlantic Record’s head of A&R, Stevie decided to write as much music as he could in 2016, ending up with about 100 tracks to choose from. This time round he returns with the new single Low, a reflective and emotive work that tackles his personal experiences battling depression. Demonstrating his writing prowess, Low is full of infectious hooks, intricate instrumentation and uplifting choruses led by delicate choral style vocals.
Stevie explains, “I’ve had depression since I was 13. And it’s rarely the reeling, twisting misery often depicted. I grew up listening to emo and metalcore and those genres usually take a pretty dramatic approach to inner turmoil. But there’s not a lot of music about incipient, lingering depression: the kind where, from the moment you wake until the moment you fall asleep, you just generally feel empty and flat. Maybe you don’t even cry; you just feel tired and sluggish and don’t want to see your friends or really talk to anyone so you make excuses and cancel plans and just hide away in your bedroom. One day you wake up and realise that weeks have gone by and you didn’t really do anything. You didn’t take any risks or try anything new, and your friends feel less close to you because they haven’t really seen you much. You languish slowly while you decay.”
He goes on, “I’ve wasted weeks and months in that grey, creeping depression. It’s pretty hard to talk about it, especially because sometimes I don’t even realise it’s what I’m going through. Friends try to offer love and support and then when they’re fresh out of understanding, they say ‘well, I guess that’s just Stevie. Sometimes he just disappears.’ Thats what this song is about: realising that I can’t really escape it, so I might as well lean into it and just be inside it.”
Listen to Low below
