With her latest offering ‘My Morbid Reverie’, Leamington Spa’s Lilia Asha sounds like an artist rapidly discovering just how far she can push her own ideas. Dark, immersive and increasingly ambitious, this new single takes the emotional intimacy of her earlier work and stretches it into something far more cinematic and unpredictable.
Written in a single sitting, the track captures the unsettling feeling of becoming trapped inside your own thoughts while mourning a past version of yourself. But rather than smoothing those emotions into something easily digestible, she embraces the confusion. The result is immediate and vivid, with the song gradually slipping further away from conventional pop as it unfolds.
The production begins in a relatively intimate space before becoming increasingly distorted and fractured, allowing the music itself to mirror the psychological tension behind the lyrics. It gives the track a compelling sense of movement, as though the song itself is actively coming apart around us.
Lilia’s vocal is also equally effective. There’s a quiet confidence in the way she allows the performance to remain vulnerable without becoming overly dramatic, giving the larger production shifts much more impact when they arrive.
Then after building towards its most intense moments, the track suddenly dissolves into birdsong, leaving behind an eerie sense of openness. It’s a wonderfully unexpected detail and exactly the kind of creative choice that makes the single feel bigger than a straightforward confessional pop song.
While influences such as Phoebe Bridgers and Conan Gray can be heard in the emotional directness, Lilia Asha is already moving towards a more distinctive space of her own, particularly through the way she combines music with visual art and atmosphere.
In all, ‘My Morbid Reverie’ feels like a genuine leap forward. Bold, imaginative and beautifully unsettling, it captures her at a point where her songwriting and production instincts are beginning to expand together, and the possibilities from here feel especially exciting.
