Zellie Brideโs debut EP All That Lingers is as cinematic, soft, intimate and contemplative like the three am thoughts of an overthinker. Drawing from alternative indie pop but steering it toward something softer, more internal, the rising artist shapes five tracks around nostalgia, emotional paralysis, and the uneasy drift between past and future. Soft pianos, airy synth fog, and warm atmospheric guitars weave through the EP like half-remembered dreams, giving Zellieโs rich, tender voice the space to unravel what it means to grow up while feeling left behind.
She introduces that emotional terrain right away in โInnocence.โ Gentle strumming and light tapping beats float in like distant memories, framing her introspective delivery. Her voice carries bruise and clarity as she sings about slipping years, self-pitying, and the strange grief of losing a version of yourself youโll never reclaim. The warmth in the melody makes the ache sharper, the way nostalgia often does. Itโs comforting at first glance, devastating once you sit with it.
By the time โInsincereโ arrives, the EP turns inward even more sharply. Zellie leans into a heavier vocal tone, almost weighed down, before lifting into a fragile falsetto that later stacks against her chest voice in the bridge. It mirrors the lyricโs panic spiral, with the sense of circling the same five blocks while everyone else seems to be sprinting ahead. The production keeps things minimal but tense, buzzing with the fluorescent hum of real-life anxiety. Her falsetto piercing through the fog hits especially hard, like a thought youโve tried to bury but keeps resurfacing.
The EP closes with โUsed to Be,โ its melancholy carried on gentle streaming guitars until swelling strings push it into a cinematic emotional reckoning. Zellie sings slowly, deliberately, like someone tracing old wounds with careful fingers. When the rumbling beats enter toward the end, they break through the stillness with a pulse that feels like a heartbeat trying to steady itself. Her plea โ take me back to how it used to be โ lands like a final exhale from someone worn down but still searching for softness in a world thatโs turned cold.
All That Lingers is exactly what its title promises: a space for the memories that haunt, the questions that wonโt settle, and the resilience needed to hold both.
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Review by: Naomi Joan