#meghanpulles

Indie-Americana artist Meghan Pulles reigns as an emo-positive singer-songwriter, writing releases that don’t hesitate to capture and intimacy and personal depth for introspective healing. With her upcoming album ‘ear baby’ set to release later this year, the Nashville up-comer now bears her second single from the release titled ‘mamma’, a new insight into the powerful aura we can expect from the entire body of work.

With a warm alternative-folk bedding of sound, ‘mamma’ gently leads in with delicate instrumentals that don’t just weave around each other but most prominantly weave themselves around your heart, softly holding your burdens for the time Meghan has you wrapped around her words. With a strikingly resonant finger-picked acoustic guitar riff and subdued beats working around one another amidst the occasional intermittent piano notes, ‘mamma’ delivers upon a sound that’s always growing with every layer it has to offer. As things progress, the drum beat becomes more of a quick-paced succession of beats alike that of a march, complemented by the piano’s growing eloquent performance and subtle but powerful backing vocals that add a vaster resonance to each word. Gracing her sound with her agile vocals, Meghan both soars through a higher range with drawn out lines and tumbles down to a lower-range for rich and melancholically evocative lows. At nearly eight minutes in length, ‘mamma’ is quite the mesmerising journey of sonic development, ebbing and flowing as well as evolving through every turn and not quite having a typical song structure by any means. Purely focusing on the delivery of her emotional journey and creating a sound that flows along with it means the song doesn’t really carry a verse or chorus, but you’ll find that it needn’t offer one, encapsulating you more through its experience that bears an actual heart and soul rather than hopes to strictly follow any musical guidelines.

As you’d expect from the haunting slow sound, ‘mamma’ is just as incredibly poignant in the message it has to share, with Meghan heart-wrenchingly exploring themes of accessing your inner child and the feelings that remain after being emotionally abandoned by your parents. A heavy voicemail introduction really sets the tone for this weighty narrative, with Meghan revealing ‘I’m not doing too well, so if you can give me a call back when you get this?’, only to be met with a continued silence on the other line. As she continues to question ‘mamma, can you hear me?’, the lyrical journey of ‘mamma’ is one that cathartically works through these painful emotions, yearning for an answer but eventually needing to accept one is never coming. Entangled within her dark thoughts, Meghan sings ‘I’m screaming into a void of darkness, I’m screaming out but all I hear is silence’, not just battling her own struggles but constantly dealing with the rejection of a comforting parental figure each time she reaches out for that guidance and support. It’s hard not to ache along as she continues to share ‘I feel like dying’ , listening to Meghan’s spilling emotions in a way her parents haven’t been able to hold the space for, an incredibly personal unravelling of thoughts and feelings that for those who can relate will both comfort and deeply touch their souls.

Check out ‘mamma’ here to feel the true power of Meghan’s incredible instrumental experience, with a lyrical message that you can’t help but be utterly stirred by.

Written by: Tatiana Whybrow

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