Lucy Gallant turns Forbidden Love into a roots-pop confession with a shadow underneath

Lucy Gallant’s Forbidden Love arrives with a title that could easily tip into melodrama, but the strength of singer-songwriter music is that it can make a big phrase feel intimate again. Released on 2 June, the Byron Bay artist’s track sits between acoustic ballad, pop, folk, indie pop, roots and singer-songwriter traditions. That combination suggests something open and melodic, but with enough earth under it to keep the emotion from floating away. Gallant’s background is often described as eclectic, and that seems to match the music’s instinct to blend rather than obey one lane. Forbidden Love is the kind of song that works best when the vocal is allowed to carry the risk: desire, hesitation, consequence and the private weather that comes with wanting something complicated. In a release week full of noise, electronics and post-hardcore pressure, this offers a more human-scale drama: one voice, one feeling and a line that should not be crossed but probably will be.

Source: https://lucygallant.bandcamp.com/track/forbidden-love