Let’s talk about feelings—the ones you try to put in a box, tape up, and leave on the top shelf of your brain. Shiloh Mae’s latest single “Photograph” is about those very feelings breaking through the box and making you feel everything all over again. It’s Portland rain on a dusty summer memory, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I pressed play.
There’s a quiet ache in “Photograph“, but not the kind that drags you under. Instead, Shiloh Mae gives us a kind of emotional buoyancy—like sitting in the tension of goodbye while still clutching onto the past with both hands. Her voice has that rich, golden timbre that feels like it should’ve been bottled in the ’70s, but the way she stretches it over this indie-pop-rock arrangement gives it a modern ache. Think early Lizzy McAlpine meets 90s rom-com soundtrack energy—but less glossy, more grit.
Lyrically, it’s a slow burn. Every line feels handwritten—like it came straight from an old diary you thought you’d thrown out. It’s the kind of song that makes you involuntarily close your eyes while listening. And then there’s that guitar solo. Absolutely delicious. Melancholic, but with a pulse. It lands in the sweet spot between vulnerability and power—like screaming into a pillow and feeling better afterward.
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Shiloh Mae clearly has roots in folk, but she’s not confined by genre. You can hear the Bird and Willow warmth in her melodies, but she’s stretching into something bolder here—testing the waters of soft rock, even brushing up against the edges of dream-pop. There’s a quiet confidence to her songwriting that suggests she knows exactly what she’s doing, even if she’s still exploring where she’s going.
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