D'Arcy Spiller confronts heartbreak with dramatic new single 'Curveball'

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Australia’s D’Arcy Spiller today returns with her brand new single ‘Curveball’, a venomous, dramatic clap-back at her ex, which follows her previous 2022 singles, the rocky ‘Crave’ and the tender ‘Milk & Honey’.

Written and produced with Dylan Nash (Angus & Julia Stone, Gretta Ray) and Rob Amoruso (Kelly Rowland, Macy Gray, Isabella Manfredi), ‘Curveball’ is a moody, bluesy, cinematic pop-rock track that builds in intensity. Gentle piano gives way to bluesy guitar into a thumping beat in the chorus as Spiller’s voice soars with barely disguised anger. Lyrically the song is Spiller’s reaction to the secrets she discovered after a relationship fell apart: ‘I never saw that coming / I shrug it off and pretend like I don’t care / But the shock it still lingers in the air,’ she sings.

“I was stupidly listening to my American ex’s podcast with his band, where he mentioned he’d travelled to Australia a while back,” Spiller says. “His band mates were confused, and I realised some of his closest friends had no idea he'd travelled across the world to see me. That hurt. He decided to avoid that part of his life. He decided to avoid the discussion of me. He threw a curveball I never saw coming.”

After a lull in musical releases for close to a year, D’Arcy Spiller has made 2022 her own, releasing some of her finest music alongside performing headline shows and supporting Jack River. ‘Curveball’ rounds off her year in style - an engrossing, hypnotic track which pulls you straight in. Spiller has this talent to create music that is always that little bit more than just another great song - there is drama, shifts in mood, story telling and an atmosphere that makes her music an immersive listening experience. It will always make you feel and connect, and with music like this, you can’t ask for anything better. Tune in now.

‘Curveball’ is out now via 100s+1000s. You can listen here.

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