Anjalts finds reconnection in the glow of new single 'Dim the Lights'

With her latest single 'Dim the Lights', genre-blurring Anjalts artist trades grandeur for intimacy, spotlighting the moments after conflict when silence isn’t the absence of love, but the space where it reassembles itself. Released as the eighth track leading up to her third studio album, this song lingers in the stillness after an argument, offering up the choice to stay.

Over gently smouldering instrumentation of softly strummed guitars, ambient low-end pulses, and the breath of a beat barely there, Anjalts creates a room with the lights turned low and the tension almost visible. It’s moody, but not cold; vulnerable, but not fragile.

Rather than dressing up emotion in elaborate production, Anjalts leans into the restraint. The track’s warmth lives in its resistant to crescendo, the way it trusts its own tempo without looking for bomblast to excite itself. There’s no over-explaining, just the kind of honesty that exists when two people stop talking and start listening again, even if only with their bodies.

It’s a bold pivot from the rebellion of her 2024 LP 'Bluency' and the eco-urgency of its predecessor 'Air to Fire'. This time, Anjalts is looking inward. The production is scaled down, but the emotional stakes are higher than ever. There’s something extremely refreshing in a song that’s content to sit with discomfort and invite grace.

In a world too quick to sever ties or shout louder, 'Dim the Lights' offers to step closer. Breathe. And if all else fails, dance.