The FADER: The 50 best songs of 2024 / Quiet Light

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See Quiet Light’s track “Used to be Your Angel” Featured at #28 on The FADER’s Best Songs of 2024 List <3

28. Quiet Light, “Used To Be Your Angel”

Stare closely enough into your tear-stained pillow and patterns emerge. The islands of damp form a map, not of a way out of your heartbreak, but of the despairing new context that’s come to define your life. Riya Mahesh’s Quiet Light project thrives on reconfiguration — in the case of “Used To Be Your Angel,” piercing poetry with the grace of Joni Mitchell is beamed through the prism of Arthur Russell’s avant-garde sound systems. The song traces the contours of young heartbreak with the tenderness and rumination of receiving a “just saying hey” text, right when you needed it the least. — JD

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