‘Kiss Me Sober’ is a unique piece of indie music. Not just for its topicality, but also in its sound. Fran Lusty’s latest single describes a conversation between two individuals after a night of drinking when doubts start flooding in around what the relationship really means. It’s immediately relatable to anyone who’s been in that position, completely enraptured and infatuated through the night until a singular moment calls everything into question. It feels blissfully nostalgic, but also strangely vulnerable and worrying. You feel like you have to take the first step, allowing yourself to break away from the moment to see whether it was truly a one sided affair or whether it’s going to be reciprocated.
The way it builds, a simple acoustic backing alongside a wholly vulnerable and open vocal performance that starts to unravel in front of you, ‘Kiss Me Sober’ starts to progress into something larger than itself as the entire arrangement hits its stride. It’s able to capture that moment in the night where are the feelings start flooding in and you feel wholly overwhelmed by the weight of all you’ve felt and all you could feel. At the end, you just want to be embraced lovingly to a more composed state, so kiss me sober.