Australian songwriter Julie Paschke continues to carve out her own spectral corner of the indie-folk universe with her latest self-recorded single, โCold In Your Town.โ Created entirely at home before being polished by Dan Duszynski at Dandy Sounds, the track dispatches from Paschkeโs inward-looking world, where thoughts drift like winter fog, and meaning settles only after the song has finished. She has little interest in explaining herself, charismatically so. As she says, โIโd much rather the music was interacted with than meโฆ I prefer the mystery of the old days.โ That ethos bleeds into every second here.
โCold In Your Townโ opens with glistening, translucent guitar strums that feel like frost catching sunlight. Paschkeโs voice enters delicately and is fragile with a high, airy, half-present, half-spirit whisper, carrying the emotional weight without ever raising its volume. Her melodies step carefully, as if tiptoeing across thin ice, hinting at troubles beneath the surface that never quite need naming.
As the track unfolds, the atmosphere thickens, as the strumming grows stronger, heavier, like cold wind pushing against a windowpane, and the ambience swells into something cathartic and subtly, but powerfully engulfing. Paschke seems to hover inside her own thoughts, singing from the periphery of connection.
Itโs stream-of-consciousness songwriting, where meaning lands sideways, through tone more than narrative. Yet the unease, the distance, the desire to understand and retreat at the same time make it all the more intimate. Itโs all there, suspended in the glow of those haunted guitars.
โCold In Your Townโ doesnโt shout for attention. It lingers soft, ghostly, and true to Paschkeโs belief that music is just another way to spend time meaningfully before the moments disappear.
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Review by: Naomi Joan