Before

This next song gave me a very summer of 2012 Channel Orange vibe. Endless Berlin summer days and carefree times.

There’s a certain softness to Koliha's "Before" that feels like flipping through an old photo album you forgot about. Photos that bring a nostalgic, yet warm smile to your face. This is a brand new discovery for me, and I feel I fell in love with music again.

The looping guitar in the background gently dances around a subtle bassline, while airy reverb stretches every note into something hazy and long-forgotten. What I love the most is how perfectly her vocals sit right at the edge of spoken word and melody. Intimate and unforced, this is a song to drift away to.

"Musically, the song is intentionally very minimal. It’s built around looped guitars that stayed in their original, raw version, almost unpolished on purpose. I wanted it to feel more like a poem than a traditional song, something dreamy, slow, and slightly hypnotic, where the goal isn’t really to “listen” but to be immersed in a feeling. The vocals are soft, almost whispered at times, it’s less about performance and more about memory," she elaborates on Instagram.

"Before" doesn’t rush to resolve anything, it simply exists and, in doing so, invites you to slow down with it.