The lead single from VULIN’s upcoming EP Mill Sessions, ‘A Word to Say’ is the kind of song that removes its listener from their surroundings and draws them into its sound world.
Making you imagine yourself in expansive, vast hills looking out into the world that is ever inviting while housing contradictions and unpredictabilities in its womb, this song feels like the song you listen when you stand in that liminal space between onwardness and staying. VULIN stayed true to their Scottish roots in the creation of this track.
The instrumentation is achingly gentle, while managing to hold a quiet, energy like that of fire embers. The layers in the song are brilliantly done – acoustic guitars forming the skeleton of the song, with reverb drenched electric guitars creating an atmospheric feel, piano progressions giving the song a hauntingly ethereal quality, organ notes which ground that haunting feel.
The song stands in an inbetween space of indie rock and soft rock, giving the song so many dimensions through which it can be looked at.
The lyrics are brimming with a meaning, as they pay homage to the worlds and the words one is tied to and will be tied to till the end of their time, despite the bodily exits one takes from their land to move into a vaster world. There is a deeply nostalgic, heart-warming feeling in the song, making you long for the lands that you come from as you sit in spaces that are not really your own, no matter how much you try to make them to be.