Here comes Tim Lyre again, a man with a story that begins with fairytale dreams and ends with reality biting back. His new single, “Storytime,” featuring the UK indie-soul sensation BINA., is a wistful study of love falling apart, where memory and heartache wrap around a fragile neo-soul beat.
As part of his quest for the forthcoming “SPIRAL” album, the Nigerian-born artist drafts an intimate duet that feels more like a late-night confession than a love song. BINA. revels alongside as the ideal counterpart, her vocals intertwining with Tim’s as they alternate verses like two partners reminiscing. Their delivery has an aching honesty, no grand, roiling arguments, no dramatic goodbyes, just the quiet realization that love, no matter how promising, does not always run the distance.
The production of the song is unassuming but thoroughly immersive. The tunefulness that emerges is oblique, hovering like a memory that has already begun to fade in time, balancing the wistfulness that permeates. It’s the kind of track that seeps under your skin, seeing you reconsidering the what-ifs and almosts of past romances. This emotionally charged collaboration is served up perfectly by the Johannesburg and London-based label Outer South, offering a platform for both artists to shine in their vulnerability.
The accompanying music video, directed by Chris Saunders, visualizes this heartbreak. Wreathed in neon colors, Tim and BINA. sit in a vintage ride, their dialogue reads like prose scraped off the back of a tattered love letter. The video’s cinematography underscores the conversational tone of the track, bringing an extra layer of poignancy to every glance and lyric. And when its final image finds Tim staring at an empty seat, the weight of that lost love hangs heavy in the air, unheard but not unfelt.
“Storytime” is a hauntingly romantic reminder that not every love story ends with a happily ever after. This time, Tim Lyre joins BINA. assert that sometimes, the most potent music is not about the victories of love but its quiet, inevitable endings.
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