Seventeen-year-old Australian singer-songwriter Lana Karlay is juggling Year 12 classes at home and late-night sessions in Los Angeles, and you can hear that split life humming underneath โRunning Out Of Time,โ her new pop-R&B slow burn with LA artist camโdn. Co-created with producer Esthy, the track sits in that sweet spot between SZA-style emotional honesty and the atmospheric ache of modern alt-pop, all about realising youโre in love just as the clock starts to tick louder.
It opens in a soft blur, with ambient, hazy production, gentle guitar flecks, and padded beats wrapping around Lanaโs voice like streetlights in the rain. She sings from the edge of her bed and the edge of her nerve, โIโm sitting on the edge / waiting for you to call me again,โ in a tone thatโs delicate but sure of what it wants. The mix stays stripped-back on purpose, letting every breath and crack in her vocal feel close enough to touch.
Then the chorus unfurls, and she glides into a tender falsetto, admitting, โI think weโre running out of time / I just wanna make you mine,โ while the beat hits a little harder underneath, like a heart speeding up. camโdn doesnโt crash the party so much as slide into the same emotional lane; his voice first shadows hers on โโCause I wonder where you are,โ then takes the spotlight for a confessional bridge: โIโve been counting down the years / for you to feel the way I doโฆ I was scared to make a move.โ Her echo of โfeel the way I doโ turns it into a duet of mutual regret.
By the time the hook circles back, โHow can I ever let you go again,โ the song has become less a teenage crush song and more a late-night conversation with the one person you canโt quite lose and canโt quite claim. Itโs understated, moody, and exactly the kind of track you play at 2 a.m. when youโre finally brave enough to text first.
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Review by: Naomi Joan