Petal's New Song "Tightrope" is a Whole Bunch of Emotions at Once

Pennsylvania's Petal – otherwise known as Kiley Lotz – recently announced her second album Magic Gone. Following the release of the first track from that record (the phenomenal "Better Than You"), she's now released another, "Tightrope."

According to Lotz, the song has an important place at the heart of Magic Gone, stating in a press release that "'Tightrope' serves as the thesis of the duality of the record. Tightrope Walker/Miracle Clinger are the two worlds I was living in: becoming very skilled at a dangerous performance, which has great consequences if you fail and also clinging onto the idea that there is hope in all this pain and maybe there will be some great resolution beyond my control."

Carried through by Lotz's voice – powerful whether loud or quiet – the track starts small and grows into an urgent rock song that crescendos with Lotz insisting "The truth is just a piece of gold dressed as coal." It's the sort of song that feels high stakes, like it's enacting an important realisation and all of the emotions that come with that at once: freedom, fear, the sensation of being on the edge of something new. Listen above, and keenly await Magic Gone on Run For Cover, on 15 June.

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