London artist
CHINCHILLA has shared new single
'Avoidance', the first in a trilogy of songs set to arrive this summer.
The track was written and recorded in 45 minutes following a difficult period in CHINCHILLA's life, dealing with industry pressures and personal heartbreak. The release arrives with a lyric video created in collaboration with Frances O'Sullivan.
"I wrote this when I was in a period of a lot of stress/burn out - I released '
Little Girl Gone' and it was viral and changing my life and I was running the project completely alone, no time to eat/sleep etc… I was also going through this break up and on my way to a writing session I received a message that sent me into an anxiety attack. I kept thinking 'noooo I can't feel like this right now' which I guess made it worse," CHINCHILLA explains.
"I felt like I could handle everything music wise however big or small - but I couldn't handle facing the pain my heart was feeling behind those distractions, it was really excruciating to be honest. I guess at that time I felt frozen and couldn't respond at all - all I wanted to do was avoid it all and put my head under the duvet until it went away. I didn't know how to cope with the anxiety of it all. I arrived at my writing session and although we were meant to work on another song, the feeling was overbearing and all I could do in that moment was write about this. We wrote and recorded it in 45 minutes and I've always been really attached to the song capturing a really raw moment. No lyric was rewritten, it was just a real bleed of emotions. When finishing the song we tried everything to build up the production but nothing felt like it had the magic of the original version - so the final song is mainly just that."
