British singer-songwriter Daisy Howard brilliantly captures the dizzying, maddening loop of an addictive relationship on her abrasive new grunge-pop single, “On and On”. Trading her background in polished YouTube covers for a semi-nomadic life currently rooted in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Howard pivots into deeply personal territory. She leans heavily into alternative rock dripping with dry humor and exhausted self-awareness. Instead of romantically weeping over the toxic push-and-pull of manipulative mixed signals, Howard turns the lens inward, fully acknowledging her own complicity in the recurring absurdity of it all.
Musically, the track perfectly mirrors that psychological vertigo. A heavy, violently distorted pulse propels the rhythm aggressively forward. Howard navigates the verses with an almost conversational pacing, like someone numbly listing off a receipt of bad life decisions.
Then the chorus hits.
The arrangement detonates into a soaring, overwhelmingly loud wall of sound. High-pitched, wailing sonic layers weave erratically through the noise, vividly mimicking the chaotic urgency of being entirely trapped by your own chaotic choices.
Ultimately, Howard trades her frustration for a defiant, rebellious embrace of the madness. When a doomed cycle refuses to actually end, why exhaust yourself making sense of it when you can simply turn up the distortion and surrender to the crash?
