Single Review: Fallulah – He’ll Break Up With You When Summer Comes

Beginning on the sort of mournful, Balkan strings one could imagine soundtracking stock footage of the Eastern Bloc circa 1989, Fallulah’s new single ‘He’ll Break Up With You When Summer Comes’ is a tour de force in melancholic and thoughtful nostalgia.

The track sees Dane Chanteuse Fallulah (aka Maria Apetri) veering between a spurned lover’s concessions of defeat and the more balanced wisdom that eventually comes from surviving such a situation. There are so many disparate emotions crammed into the song’s three-and-a-half minutes that it almost acts a microcosm for the entire grieving process in itself.

Musically, it’s equally potent and diverse. From the aforementioned sombre strings that set the scene, it quickly shifts to jaunty guitar arpeggios and circular drum rhythms that underpin Apetri’s fiery protestations of “Motherfucking asshole, you make me bitter and ice cold.” It’s a provocative and honest depiction of the resentment that can arise with broken hearts, and the eventual strength that arises.

It’s this feeling that hope and positivity will come out of the trauma depicted in ‘He’ll Break Up With You When Summer Comes’ that lends the track its summery feel. After all, summer is a time for optimism and beneath its initially icy veneer, the track is ripe with it. It’s about scouring your surroundings for something precious to hold on to, and in this instance, Fallulah might just have created it herself; a captivating, beguiling and, above all else, comforting ode to lost lovers and new beginnings.

By Alex Cull

@AlexMorning

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