Seventeen year old newcomer Lana Karlay is already making an impact as an exciting pop artist on the rise. The Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has built her sound on an elegant balance between emotion and sonic impact, forming where pop meets R&B, and heartfelt storytelling sits at the centre.
Her songs feel cinematic in scope but intimate in tone, drawn from the context of self-discovery that comes with growing up, falling in love and finding your voice in the middle of it all. Still juggling school studies back home while spending months at a time recording in Los Angeles, Lana is living two realities at once; the normality of a student life and the creative rush of building an international music career.
It’s a contrast that ripples throughout her artistic vision, where emotion meets slick production and big dreams are tethered to real life. Unveiling her original sonic vision last August with her debut single “Won’t Be Your Victim,” she’s since shared a string of well-received singles. Now, with her latest release titled “Running Out Of Time,” Lana takes her sound into more emotional areas with a stunning R&B-tinged pop jam that’s catchy and moving from start to finish.
Written and recorded in Los Angeles alongside producer Esthy and featuring LA-based artist Cam’dn, the track lands as a slow-burning sonic confession that captures the panic of realising love just as it starts to slip away. It’s a song built on tension and tenderness, where the smallest moments of a look, a breath or a hesitation, feel monumental. The minimalist production frames the two singers’ voices in a delicate arrangement of smooth guitar and laid back percussion, resulting in a dreamy soundscape that’s mesmeric and subtly transportive.
Led by Lana’s dazzling voice, her tone carries the weight of recognition, that moment when you suddenly understand what someone means to you and the fear that it might already be too late. Brimming with memorable melodic writing, elegant performance, charming harmonies and engrossing sound design, “Running Out Of Time” sees Lana Karlay and Cam’dn serves up a magical musical moment that’s impossible not to love.
The accompanying music video, directed by Esthy and filmed in Los Angeles with Cam’dn, mirrors the song’s emotional concept, reimagining classic pop and R&B motifs through a fresh lens where soft lighting, close-ups and expressive visual language captures intimacy throughout. It’s another example of how Lana approaches her work holistically, considering not just the sound but the entire world around it. With more singles and three music videos planned ahead of her debut album rollout, Lana Karlay is going from strength to strength on her exciting musical adventure.
Watch the music video for Running Out Of Time below
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