I love Ellie Dixon's creativity with harmonies, it builds these amazing moving sequences, down the scale in this particular song. As someone with ADHD this song, which is about her diagnosis with ADHD, successfully feels like what it is to be attention skipping, moving from slow, to fast, and jumping from topic to topic. Especially fun because this song is on her renaissance-themed Tales of a Knight album, which is the album of her's Spotify originally recommended to me back in 2025.
There is this great sequence around each chorus where she runs from high to low pitched and then into a great drum line.
I love the way this song jumps around. Dixon's lyrics say it:
My thoughts just roll around like loose change up in my head My thoughts run, run
and a lesser artist might just speak the words, but what catches my attention is how closely the song's music feels exactly like that. Her thoughts run like loose change, and so does the music.
I haven't clicked as well with some of the other albums, but 2025's Tales of a Knight is a definitely a recommend from me. All the songs are great on there, but Renaissance and Guts--both tracks on the album--are absolute bangers, I've listened to them quite a few times and they're always fun to have on my playlist. This track and the full album has her skills on display, with all these wonderful little time changes and big shifts in tone and chord. It makes all her music on Tales of a Knight so much fun to listen to. I've liked a number of her other songs too, but I really need to make a focused effort to listen more.
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