There’s something so immediately intriguing about the way Grace McLean starts My Lovely Enemy. The song has a beat that’s simultaneously ominous yet suggestive, it perks your ears and then constantly has you on the edge of your seat yearning to understand more and more. With a wonderfully song central performance from McLean, this song defies simple categorisation and moves into something so genuinely unique to itself.
Accompanied by a music video that feels at once gothic and at another classical and at another Americana, it’s a strange and almost disturbing experience but you can’t for a moment turn your head around.
Fun and catchy, toe tapping and traumatic, it’s so many things all at once. This is the kind of music you love to see being created, styles that are so truly their own and fresh and filled with flavour.