Brendan Peggโs โI Can Tellโ is a late-night confession youโve been waiting all day to hear. Clocking in at under two and a half minutes, the song opens the door to a dimly lit room of unspoken tension and lets you sit in it. With gentle guitar strums as its spine, the track floats in a moody haze while Peggโs breathy, restrained, and heartbreakingly sincere voice helps us realize that something once tender has begun to fray.
Pegg opens the song with a memory and some self-convincing with the line, โI can tell she loves me by the way she says my name.โ Itโs intimate, until the rest of the song unravels what he already knows deep down. That love is changing, or maybe already gone. Brendanโs delivery is almost conversational, like heโs telling you something he hasnโt even said out loud to himself until now.
The production is minimal and spacious, with the acoustic guitar doing most of the heavy lifting. You can hear the silence between the words, and that silence says a lot.
Fans of Role Model and Jeremy Zucker will find a familiar emotional terrain here, but Peggโs voice, literally and artistically, holds its own. With this release, he stakes his claim as a rising name in indie-alt pop, one who knows how to bottle up emotional honesty. Listen to โI Can Tellโ on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan