โOrwellian Times,โ the new pop-rock firebrand from Lana Crow, is a sharp, hook-heavy jolt to the system, dripping with the unease of our hyper-polarized era. Released November 17, 2025, the single cements Crow as one of the boldest truth-tellers rising in indie pop, refusing to sugarcoat what she sees as a cultural spiral into performative outrage and moral grandstanding. Her message is blunt as it fuses rock grit with a shimmering pop atmosphere. On the other hand, sheโs provoking thought, tapping into the exhaustion of a generation drowning in noise, judgement, and the constant tug-of-war between digital empathy and digital cruelty.
The track opens quietly enough, with plucked chords climbing upward while a ghostly voice resonates. Crow slips in with a reflective, bitingly controlled vocal, each line carrying the sting of someone trying to make sense of chaos she didnโt sign up for. Just then, it gets surrounded by a dreamy reverb that makes her words feel suspended in fog, as if sheโs speaking from the edge of a world teetering off balanceโbefore it switches up again. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the dynamism in this song.
But the song cracks open as guitars start to sizzle, cymbals splash out sparks, and the drums thump with a pulse that feels like a heartbeat slipping into panic. Crowโs voice lifts into an ethereal falsetto, airy, trembling and delicate, before dropping back into a thicker, grounded tone. She moves through her range with razor-sharp dynamic control, the tension between fragility and fury mirroring the very contradictions sheโs calling out.
By the final chorus, everything converges with the bite, the beauty, the urgency. Lana Crowโs โOrwellian Timesโ pushes through all the questions we keep dodging. This track makes it impossible not to look the reality in the face.
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Review by: Naomi Joan