A Bit Too Late by Amy Pinkus: Review

by admin May 9, 2025

May 9, 2025

Amy Pinkus’s latest single, “A Bit Too Late,” reads the last page of a love letter you never meant to send—raw, aching, and utterly addictive. Hailing from Toronto and teaming up with producer-fiancé Nick Babcock, Amy delivers a slow-burning anthem for anyone who’s ever waited just a little too long for someone to catch up emotionally. The track opens with gentle guitar strums that feel like you’re being let in on a secret, then builds with subtle beats and soaring light vocals into a catchy chorus.

Amy’s voice spills over with longing. There’s a fragility in the verses where she recounts the emotional limbo of loving someone who’s not quite ready, paired with a bite of sass in lyrics like “Trying not to listen to your stupid list of reasons.” Relatable? Painfully so. But then she hits you with dreamier lines about green eyes and neon signs, and suddenly you’re back in that messy, beautiful in-between of maybe-love.

The fact that this whole thing was born from a real-life “will-they-won’t-they” moment with her now-fiancé adds a delicious layer of irony. It’s heartbreak alchemy that turns the past almost-breakup into a melodic confession. If Rosie Darling makes you cry in your car, Amy Pinkus might make you text your ex and your therapist in the same hour.

Recorded mostly in Nick’s home studio, “A Bit Too Late” sounds like it belongs on every “Late Night Heartbreak” playlist out there. But what really makes it stick is Amy’s refusal to pull back is as she lets the emotions run wild, messy, and gorgeously melodic. It’s love, it’s loss, it’s timing—and it hits, well, right on time. Listen to it on Spotify.