From Silence to Sound: TAMS/N Breaks Free With Her New Single "Wallow"
Credit: Ryan Wheatley In the neon-dotted heart of Melbourne, where night gives way to muffled morning, an artist coalesces out of late-night bartending hum into worlds of sound. TAMS/N OTWAY carries a heritage not just of melody but of endurance—her father's love for music branded onto her own rhythm. By day she dispenses drinks, at night she dispenses herself through her music, blending drama, reality, and a theatricality that appears designed for the cinema screen and all-night confessionals. She doesn't perform music; she inhabits it, breathes it, bleeds it. Her latest drop, Wallow , is no superficial pop song—it's a penance. Born from a bird tapping hard at her window in Melbourne's lockdown quiet, the song appropriates that fragile visit and makes it a symbol of breaking chains of memory and bitter love. With its synth-beat tempo and power-ballad anthem hysteria, Wallow is a battle cry of defiance: defiance to remain trapped, defiance to dissolve in pain. It's...
