ERLY – Further [Single + Video]

ERLY’s “Further” drives deep into R&B’s darker side, where isolation, regret, and fractured love hold sway. He rides a wave of haunting organ, glitchy echoes, and overdriven guitar lines that fill the song with a tension that swells and explodes in a pattern. And each line spills over with memories of something you might’ve once trusted but can’t recognize anymore. “Caught me red-handed…Why did she take/ my ego, my faith”—the word lands like they’re ripped from some guarded place – sounding heavy and almost stuck in the throat as they break free.

Producer Quinn Mills lays out pulsing drums and scratchy, electric licks that ground ERLY’s voice as it shifts from pained to pleading. And then there’s the chorus—“The further we run/ Come back to my arms/ Looking for love/ We’re looking for love ”—half invitation, half exorcism, as if distance might make it easier for either of them. Under the lights of a staged subway set-up, ERLY’s live performance of “Further” digs in deeper, making the unease feel almost tangible. This almost cinematic number tracks the jagged edge of heartbreak, chewing on love’s lingering pull and how it can make it seem impossible to just let go.

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