British artist 50METHING returns with the striking alternative single, โSlowly Through The Night,โ like a quiet confession left playing in the dark. Written, sung, and recorded at home, the track was shaped during a long and uncertain period that followed a cancer diagnosis in 2023. Created between surgeries and treatments, it leans into honesty, resilience, and the calm that can settle in when life slows you down, whether you want it to or not, while not throwing out any pity party either.
50METHING has always used music as a lens on the world, often tackling social issues and uncomfortable truths, and here that instinct turns inward. You will find a shared humanity running beneath the surface, inspired by time spent in hospital environments where countless lives intersect in the struggle for survival. It comes off as a personal song that reaches out to the communal, like a late-night thought many people have had but few put into words.
Musically, โSlowly Through The Nightโ opens with a feather-light, whispery high head voice, delivered at an eerie, unhurried pace. The groove is tight and deceptively simple, pulling you in with subtle precision rather than force. Itโs light on its feet but gripping, as it creeps under your skin. The chorus sharpens with the lines, โPlease donโt take me now / I am just getting started / I will take my cup of poison and let it light the way,โ because itโs defiant, vulnerable, and oddly hopeful all at once.
As the track unfolds over its six-plus-minute runtime, layers slowly stack up. Another voice slips beneath his in the later chorus, glistening chords shimmer into view, and melodic guitars begin to bloom. The song chooses to linger in that fragile space between fear and determination. โSlowly Through The Nightโ is intriguing, intimate, and powerful. Even in its delicacy it brings the strongest resolve.
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Review by: Naomi Joan