Yours Are the Only Ears is the recording project of Susannah Lee Cutler. She has released a few tracks in the past year (which you can listen to on her Bandcamp page), but it is the latest one which I wanted to tell you about today.
‘Fire In My Eyes’ was released on New Year’s Eve, and luckily didn’t manage to slip under my radar. The song is a lovely slice of folky lo-fi bedroom pop that starts with an intimate lovelorn feel, “i’m sitting inside / the room that is now mine / it comes in waves / i want to take care of you somedays”, before spiraling into something a little darker with lines such as, “i recall my hands around your throat / in the darkness of our hole / the colors are all muddy now / my angry footprint on your mouth”.
Luckily, the last verse comes full circle and revisits the cosy romance of the songs beginnings, “do you want to sit on a hill / and fall down with me? / we could make more coffee / or just fall back asleep.”
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You can get ‘Fire In My Eyes’ right now via the Yours Are the Only Ears Bandcamp Page.
P.S. Here’s a fun fact for you – Culter also designed the cover art for Small Wonder’s Wendy. You can check out more of her art via Cargo Collective.