Danielle Durack Goes Head First Into A Break-Up On New Single “Eggshells”
Back with a second look into her upcoming album No Place is Pheonix, Arizona based singer-songwriter Danielle Durack. Following the album’s lead single, “Broken Wings“, “Eggshells” continues to dive into Durack’s journal and personal experiences with heartbreak. No Place, out January 15th 2021, was written as the singer-songwriter was grieving the end of a relationship, and the latest single continues to reveal her innermost thoughts.
A soft yet impactful track, it highlights the inner conflict of loving someone and knowing no matter what you do, it will never work. “Everything that was so hard to say conversationally to my partner at the time just came pouring out when I sat down with my guitar,” says Durack. Immediately reflected in the first verse through lyrics such as “I am hoping I am wishing, I am praying to my God that when I finally have you here that it’s just something that I want,” the sentiment builds into the chorus’ “I can’t fight the feeling that we are slowly sinking, that our worlds are getting distant.” An impactful and simplistic part of the song, each instance of the chorus features Durack’s vocals unaccompanied as she describes her warring emotions, the only instrumentation a single guitar chord strummed with each line as punctuation.
As she literally tries to outrun the inevitable demise of the relationship in the accompanying music video, the pace of the song, matched by her literal pace while running, builds with the frustration she’s conveying. With evolving lyrics within the chorus as the song progresses, the range of emotions and competing thoughts that occur when you’re processing a decision come across in an organic way. “It’s very dense and wordy and ambling, but I think it fully communicates my indecision and frustration at the time,” explains Durack. The video, equally symbolic, visually matches the inner conflict Durack was experiencing moment to moment after the breakup. “The moments I turn around represent moments of doubt and pain, but every time I turn back the pace increases to represent a kind of ‘doubling down’ on the decision, and a commitment to see it through,” she says.
Through exposing such raw sentiments through her music, Durack delivers a single that is both heartbreaking in its subject, yet heartwarming in its relatability.
Watch the accompanying music video for “Eggshells” below:
