Lily Madison – ‘This Is It’
This song makes sense the moment you hear it, even before you know the story: Lily Madison’s ‘This Is It’, out now
Since its release, the Kent singer-songwriter’s latest single has settled into the space it was clearly built for, somewhere between the melancholic pull of The Sundays and the quiet defiance of The Cranberries, with a touch of Fleetwood Mac’s warmth running underneath. It’s a track about risk, about saying the thing you’ve been holding back and not knowing what happens next, and that uncertainty is what makes it land.
Lily Madison built the song around guitars, bass, drums and tambourine, keeping the arrangement simple enough that nothing gets between the listener and the lyric. The title itself does a lot of quiet work, reading as either triumph or heartbreak depending on how the story goes, and Lily Madison never tips her hand either way.
What stands out now that the track is out in the world is how well it holds up outside the context of its own release. It’s not a song that needs an explanation to work, though knowing Madison’s roots in her local gig scene, and the honesty she’s said she wants her music to carry, only deepens it further. With more material and a full EP on the way, ‘This Is It’ looks set to be an early highlight of a much bigger run.
‘This Is It’ is out now.
