We’ve been featuring Australian rising pop star, Sharl, a lot recently as she’s had a mega year with the releases of the wild and hedonistic trip, Outside, the vibrant, Games and the thought-provoking and emotive, That Girl, so when we heard that she had just released her new collaborating single, Darker Than Midnight, we couldn’t wait to hear it and report back!
Immersing us with compressed vocals and crescendoing keys, which expand into clarity, Sharl opens Darker Than Midnight with the introspective lyrics, “I’ve been alone in my thoughts, turning them inside out, trying my best to find escape, I’ve been drowning fear, obsessions and tears, til it hit me when you said….”
We then experience the vocals of Daniel Bohen who sings, “We’ll find another way, better to wake up much too late, oooh, we’ll live another day to see the moonlight fade away…”
Darker Than Midnight has been released by Sharl and Daniel as an opus to help provide meaning and optimism to the listener through difficult times. The track is written by both artists and produced by Daniel, who has produced Sharl’s previous releases.
We learn that Darker Than Midnight is “a representation of a state of mind. A situation in which it becomes harder to see what may lie ahead, but the vital thing is continuing to try.”
The pair tell us, “This song strives to showcase the feelings, the thoughts and the possibilities in a dialogue form, and from that, tries to find hope of a light among all the darkness.”
We are always in awe of the depth of Sharl‘s lyricism, and really appreciate the vocal presence of Daniel Bohen, which really dimensionalizes the track. The pulsating beat flows cohesively with the chorus and we love how Darker Than Midnight expands emotively, taking us in deeper as the song evolves.
A lyrical highlight is, “If our places were reversed, ways of the multiverse, you’d see the sight, and say: When will you realise?“, which really gives an added resonance and poetic nuance to the piece.
We have added Darker Than Midnight to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we continue to stream Sharl’s wider discography and await her album!