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Today, pop enigma Mallory Merk returns with “Isolate Myself,” a brutally honest ballad about losing control of your emotions. Listen HERE via Warner Records. The airy, yet angst-filled cut is the latest offering from Mallory‘s forthcoming Thorns EP, which arrives on August 5. Pre-order it HERE. Mallory most recently shared the seven-song EP’s anthemic title track, plus its accompanying Elan Bia-directed video.
On “Isolate Myself,” Mallory looks inward. “We know how this one ends, why be bitter?,” she sings over a gently strummed guitar. “Sick of playin’ pretend.” The only solution to the pain is being alone: “I’ll go isolate myself to even out,” the 21-year-old declares on the chorus. “You congratulate yourself while I bleed out.” It’s the kind of emotionally resonant, no-holds-barred song that colors Mallory’s entire discography.
“It’s about that constant fight in your head that you can’t seem to get over, that hill you try time again to climb, alone in the end,” the newcomer explains. “The song is about feeling so intensely that you can be a danger to people around you, and the only hope is isolation.” Written by Mallory and produced by Dan Farber (Lizzo, Tkay Maidza), “Isolate Myself” opens her Thorns EP, which was recorded in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles.
