Jan 18 2024 4 mins
"Can’t Pretend," the third single from Graham Hill’s upcoming album, Isotropes, is a somber duet with vocalist Maggie Koerner, whose resume includes The Revivalists and Galactic. The aching, shimmering ballad has a cinematic lilt, as two souls yearn for connection while pondering the world’s fate. “Should I say hello / or wave goodbye?” What begins as a simple question becomes a haunting refrain, apropos in our modern age of uncertainty. As the song builds toward hope, the final lyrics call back to the precipice of despair: “The first thing that we share may be the end.”