Irish-born singer songwriter Luz Corrigan or ‘Luz’, the mononym we know her best by, never fails to disappoint as she releases her soothing and dreamy new track, bringing Narnia to music.

From the confines of her bedroom walls, 16-year-old Luz rustled up a touching series of anonymous covers on social media in her early days, touching the hearts of many. In 2020, Dean Lewis became part of the artist’s proliferating fan-base after she caught his eye in a cover of his heart-rendering hit single ‘Lose My Mind’ and has since unmasked her flair for songwriting. The soon-to-be superstar has addressed contentious themes in her writings, exemplified in her LGBT-pivoted release ‘The Author’, expressing the untold romance of two teenage girls; a tendentious topic in Ireland, home to the soloist.

Right from the first few seconds of the song, it becomes apparent that this is the ideal song to sip a warm mug of hot chocolate to in the cosy winter months to come. Starting off smoothly with two repeated chords, lullingly carrying us through the verse with her mellow vocals, the listening ears are enchanted by her cascading harmonies as we are reassured of her presence both lyrically and mellifluously in the words ‘promise you don’t have to be scared, I’m not going anywhere’. The artist craftily capitalises on her emotions, as she uses them to word paint her lyrics; we are met with a prolonged vibrato on ‘can’t’ as she confesses to her audience that she is ‘forcing myself up a ladder I can’t climb’, using the magic in her tones to capture the attention of the listener.

Goosebump-provoking, Corrigan’s single takes a repetitive nature, emphasising the desperate desire to keep someone you love around. Following in the footsteps of tear-evoking artists like Lauv and Maisie Peters, the 21-year old presents a vulnerability in her music by touching on the naivety of youth and the assailable emotional instability that comes with that. Proving herself to be a diamond amongst the rough, Luz’s ‘not going anywhere’ has made a name for itself as an indisputably loveable winter blanket, very much sticking to its word and staying firmly with us in the magical winter season to come.

Grab a cup of infused tea, get snug and turn up the tranquillity with ‘not going anywhere’, Luz.