Through a haze of birthday candle smoke, Holding Hour‘s “Can I Leave Me Too?” dissects relationship guilt with the kind of unflinching honesty that makes you want to look away but can’t.
Marissa Kephart’s vocals float like confessions in the dark, while the instrumentation builds a world where celebration and self-loathing slow dance together.
The Des Moines duo crafts tension through contrast – dreamy guitar textures wrestle with restless percussion, creating a soundscape that feels both weightless and weighted with regret. It’s in this space between shimmer and shadow that the track finds its power, turning what could have been a simple break-up narrative into something far more nuanced: a mirror that shows us all our best intentions gone astray.
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