Maddie Regent’s most recent single, “The wolf,” is all goodness and light even as she moves the pieces into place for her upcoming debut album. The song, an exhilarating meditation on love, loss, and the specters of a centuries-old past, is a brave advance for the ascendant artist reading her debut EP, “On the Phone with My Mom,” which comes out May 16th.
From the start of “The wolf,” its thumping tempo and infectious charge seize hold and take listeners on an emotional waltz. Co-written and produced with her boyfriend and creative collaborator Cade Hoppe, featuring additional production by Harper James of Eighty Ninety, the song’s strength is its tension. Maddie’s lilting vocals drift atop a beat that is at once urgent and heady.
“The wolf” digs into the uncomfortable feeling of running into someone who used to mean everything and now feels like someone you don’t know. Maddie embodies this emotional swing with candid intensity, allowing vulnerability and empowerment to coexist simultaneously. Her voice, both lilted and determined, encapsulates both the bittersweet sting of nostalgia and the grit to keep moving.
The plurality of the sounds builds up as the interlude gives way to the primary production, whose layered and multifaceted soundscape says what fear sounds like, the familiar storm rising, within. The chorus lifts, borne by the kind of horse-power soundscape that demands to be cranked.
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