There’s an ease to BEX that can’t be faked. “In The Way” slips in like a half-remembered dream — familiar but fresher, glowing around the edges. It’s the kind of song you play when your brain won’t stop looping the same thoughts, and suddenly, someone else puts them to melody.
The first thing that hits is the sound — that soft mix of bedroom intimacy and vintage texture. Acoustic and jangly electric guitars drift together, clarinets breathe warmth through the middle, and everything feels slightly sun-warped, like an old VHS tape you never want to rewind. The track was mastered by Simon Lancelot (Mk.gee, Dijon), and you can tell: it has that analog heart beating beneath the dreamy haze.
BEX’s voice is its own kind of reassurance — calm, imperfect in the right ways, close enough to make you forget it’s recorded. There’s a 90s sparkle in there, but it’s wrapped in the kind of tone you’d find somewhere between Mac DeMarco’s loose charm and Clairo’s quiet sincerity. The outro drifts into something almost psychedelic — not because it tries to, but because it simply feels right to stay in that moment a little longer.
“In The Way” is honest about the mess of trying to let love in. It doesn’t romanticize the confusion; it accepts it, gently. Each lyric feels lived-in, each line deliberate without being overworked. You can hear the time she took making every detail feel intentional — it’s there in the pauses, in the soft edges of her production, in the way she doesn’t rush to resolve anything.
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Hailing from Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), BEX keeps building her own world of carefully crafted pop. Her earlier tracks “Clearly” and “A New Title” already showed how she turns emotional overthinking into something universal, and “In The Way” feels like the moment she stops trying to explain herself and just exists in the sound. Trained in composition and production, she moves like someone who knows every rule but chooses which ones to break. There’s heart, humour, and an unmistakable ease — the kind of mix that makes her one of the most quietly exciting voices out of Aotearoa right now.
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