Starling turns tweeness inside-out on the choppy, hypnotic "Profiteroles"

08 June 2018, 10:00 | Written by Pip Williams

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It's been over a year since Starling shared her EP The Body. The London-based singer now breaks her silence with sparkling new single "Profiteroles".

The new track is taken from upcoming EP The Soul, due out 22 June. It sees Starling exploring a sound not dissimilar to Kate Miller-Heidke, Ingrid Michaelson, or early Marina and the Diamonds, with sweetly operatic vocals that twinkle over a sparse, elastic arrangement.

Starling's lyrics provide a glimpse into some inverted wonderland; pulling fairytale metaphors into her everyday narrative, as she dances on the knife-edge of tweeness – somehow turning anything close to cliché inside-out in an exciting reinvention. Keeping things choppy and brisk, Starling fleshes out the familiar pop form in a hypnotically simple way that's nonetheless enjoyable.

Catch Starling at London's Waiting Room on 26 September.