With "Waves" Tiiva reveals how falling in love can change everything

Taking cues from James Blake, Charli XCX and fka twigs, the singer/songwriter and producer documents a summer of self-discovering on their new debut track. Expansive and shimmering, this white light moment burns bright as Tiiva lets the emotions pour.

""Waves" is about completely losing time, finding out that time hasn’t actually stopped and we’re late for everything..." they share, "it’s about an untouchable feeling that you have to write down, because the mundane words of everyday sentences could never describe it."

Channeling this euphoric moment, Tiiva is already assessing the potential pitfalls of this new high. "I can't go back to what I knew before," they lament on the track's soaring chorus. "It's the kind of love that makes you want to start loving yourself," they continue.

"It's when someone sees your scars and fragility and believes in you, and allows you to believe you're capable of healing. It changes everything. It's an unexplored territory, an undiscovered landscape and you feel like the first person to set eyes on it."

An interesting intersection between love and mental health, Tiiva looked inwards and backwards to darker days and hedonistic self-destruction as a means to contrast the carefree, unadulterated joy their dreamy pop creation summons. Contrast is key for Tiiva as they look to analyse everything through a mystical lens which clears the rose-coloured haze around new love, but leaves just enough warmth for it still to sound comforting.