Dutch producer, songwriter, and hypnotic vocalist Lilian Hak returns to her kaleidoscopic soundscapes with a tangle of lush synth work in the haunting grooves and shimmering highs in her latest single, “I Will Ever Be Your Head,” a song that feels as though you just walked into the middle of a slow-burning thriller with a martini in hand and secrets swirling in the air.
A track from her album, “RESET,” the single is as haunting as it is cinematic. It’s Hak at her most fearless, capturing the retro mystery and acute modernity. Think a James Bond theme song, but turned upside down, passed through the brain of a woman calling the shots in her own story.
Inspired by the classic subject matter of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and the murky suspense of Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Hak serves up a work that, with some vintage code, finds voyeurism in the digital age. Also, it’s a delicate spectatorial dance between being watched and watching, between presence and figuration. Hak fulfills both effortlessly, her lithe voice floating above the sultry, smokey instrumentation like a femme fatale drifting through a low-lit establishment.
The song has lush strings and low bass, and sedate but deliberate rhythms set the mood. Hak’s vocals slice through with a calm confidence, half-cryptic and half-mastery. She sings the lyrics not just as a performer but as a person who inhabits them, taking you into a world where perception is king and nothing is what it seems.
“I Will Ever Be Your Head” is an experience. It is like standing at the brink of something dangerous and protected simultaneously. Lilian Hak rewriting how storytelling unfolds in music, drawing on literature, film, and real-world tension to create something distinctly her own.
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