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Cambridge based emo quintet Lonesome have released their brand-new single ‘You Say It’s Love’, alongside announcing their debut full-length album In The Hope This Finds You set for release 19th September via their new label East Life Records. Pre-order the album now.
Lonesome shares on the single, “Following the bruised introspection of ‘Save Your Words’, ‘You Say It’s Love’ sharpens the focus – no longer lost in aftermath, but standing face-to-face with the quiet duplicity of love spoken, not shown. This is not a song of heartbreak, but of exposure. It peels back the veneer of romantic performance, revealing the rot beneath sweet words left unproven. There is a simmering restraint here – a tension that asks, what is love without truth? It’s a confrontation, not a collapse. The bitterness is measured, precise – “bleeding out the bitter heart of you” doesn’t scream; it cuts. In that wound, the track finds its strength: the clarity that comes when illusions finally fall away. In the end, ‘You Say It’s Love’ doesn’t mourn what was lost – it questions whether it was ever there at all.”