Breakups and breakdowns on You Just Hit The Jackpot, Tiger
Relationship breakdown is a tense, tiring and often tumultuous experience. As you strain towards a life without the person you’ve previously loved, every conversation, memory or moment of reflection can break or rebuild your resolve to change. It’s playing tug of war on a tightrope, balancing a constant pull between knowing you need change and the memory of what you once had. It’s this emotional struggle that Azim Zain & His Lovely Bones wrestles with on latest single You Just Hit The Jackpot, Tiger.
YJHTJT is flushed with lyrics reflecting the subtleties of a relationship tumbling between tender and torn. From kisses on the forehead and passing out in each others body heat, to criticisms of coffee consumption and the packing of bags. A delicate and reflective song that contemplates until it cracks and drives its chorus to a strained cresendo.
In its high points Zain’s voice finds the a place that feels genuinely pained, leaving no place to hide the emotions involved. In moments of quiet the song swings still as a desperate sincerity holds its listener in place. YJHTJT grabs your heartstrings and pulls them to pieces.
Filled with Zain’s signature scope of sparkly guitars, soaring choruses and enough hooks to catch your ear for months on end, YJHTJT is Azim Zain & His Lovely Bones at their absolute finest.
