Evann McIntosh’s vocals trickle into a sparse sonic landscape, culminating in a landslide of spillover feelings and rising tensions.

“Mull It Over” has an absolute disarming quality to it, capturing you instantly. McIntosh’s latest single is a cyclical confessional tracking the journey of acceptance, apprehension, and things left unsaid.

Mull It Over - Evann McIntosh — Mull It Over – Evann McIntosh

Since their debut album MOJO, released in 2019, McIntosh has been busy honing their craft and finding themselves. The Kansas-based artist resonates for our current times, exploring youth in the digital age, gender identity, and sexuality. Where music is the canvas, McIntosh is the painter, and their work has explored heaps and bounds of expression in its various forms.

Much like a soft whisper, but equally like a steadfast proclamation, McIntosh’s lyrical precision is just a point of entry to their creative world. With vocals that have the unique ability to wash over you and remain long after they’ve left you, The 21-year-old artist ruminates on a past relationship, orbiting in what if’s and what could’ve been’s. The hook, “over and over again” anchors the track in its emotional tides, while bedroom pop-esque beats provide an upbeat backdrop to McIntosh’s circulating memories. “You’re still lurking in that lonely corner of my mind / peeking through cobwebs to catch me by surprise”; refreshingly vulnerable and disarmingly honest, the song is an exploration that doesn’t hold back. Yet, the song unravels in its own time, resisting impulse and rushing into false sureties.

Evann McIntosh "Mull It Over" © Nicholas Cantu — Evann McIntosh “Mull It Over” © Nicholas Cantu

Running at just under two and a half minutes, the sonic world of “Mull It Over” feels almost fleeting, over just in time for you to catch yourself spiralling into memory, pulling yourself back into reality.

At the same time, the music feels grainy, in the same way an old photo does. The silence that follows seems to bring comfort and familiarity, a nostalgia we always want to chase.

Building and rising by its second chorus, McIntosh charts the waves of delving into this certain type of nostalgia, allowing this indulgence to wash over them with runover lines and swelling instrumentals, before centring back in reality.

“‘Mull It Over’ is about doom spiraling, spending too much time trying to right past wrongs instead of moving forward, and how addictive that cycle can be,” McIntosh shares. “Almost as addictive as this hook.”

The song arrives ahead of McIntosh’s new album, Fantasy Fuel, out later this year. If “Mull It Over” is anything to go by, it is just the first chapter of McIntosh’s disarming lyrical vulnerability, bridging the gap between genre, storytelling, and artist.

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