I can see why this track has amassed thousands of streams already in the first few days after release. There is something vaguely familiar about every element: the vocal, the backing, the melody - it feels like I've heard this before, and it's comfortingly reminiscent of my favourite intimate live acts, particularly Angel Snow who has come to Worthing on tour from the US on a number of occasions. The structure of the song is beautiful in its simplicity and keeps the instrumentation uncluttered and well variated to give the vocal room to breathe. It's great to see Mei active in releasing music again - aside from one single in 2024, the previous releases were in 2017 so it's exciting to see what will happen next. More songs to come, as teased by her Spotify description.
Listen to paperweight and other songs like it on my Angelic Vocals playlist: