Photo by Richard Clifford

Elizabeth M. Drummond, formerly of Australian band Little May, has released her second solo single entitled ‘Congratulations’, the follow-up to her song ‘Crisis’.

For this offering Drummond crafts a hazy and darker indie meets alt-psych tune that has a 90s nostalgia to it. She delivers her vocals in more of a whispered singing/spoken word style that is truly fitting for the instrumentation of the single. ‘Congratulations’ gives a nod to Tricky, who helped to introduce a similar approach to vocals to the mainstream. This is a great direction for the Sydney artist. We surely hope to hear more.

Elizabeth M. Drummond has also shared an accompanying video which you can check out below.

Regarding the track, Elizabeth M. Drummond mentioned:

“Like the rest of the EP, this song is personal. Writing it was just therapy for myself. As cliché as it sounds, I needed to channel my pain and anger into something that felt intense, but also tongue in cheek. Similarly with my first song ‘Crisis’, I had completely surrendered to how bad I felt and I just put it all into my writing. My favourite lyric from this song is “I don’t care”, because I really reached a point where I just didn’t care anymore.”