When the Silence Speaks: Inside Anjalts’ Latest Chill-Pop Ballad
Anjalts returns with a softly devastating new single, "Love U this Late," a song that sounds like an open-hearted talk you never got to have—but always needed. This is the sixth release from her forthcoming third album, and it's strong evidence of her development as a self-taught producer, songwriter, and singer. The track is raw but restrained, intimate but spacious—swaddling emotional disconnection and the heaviness of unspoken truths in a soft, chill-pop exterior.
Anjalts weaves contrast into each layer. It begins bare and acoustic—muted guitar, whispered vocals, and a lyrical invitation: "Take a walk with me / Take a walk when you're looking down." It's disarmingly straightforward, yet it opens a door into more reflective thought. Then, the rhythm rises into something more cheerful, with bouncy kicks that nudge the track onward gently. The transition is therapeutic. Like finally releasing after you've had it all pent up inside for so long. It's a sonic expression of emotional release centered around the notion that clarity is only achieved when it's too late to act on it—but not too late to feel it.
Anjalts has a history of genre-bending and emotional exposure, and she commits here to a soul-inflected, dreamy pop that vibrates with the restrained edge of artists like Björk—quirky, whimsical, and unapologetic in its vulnerability. Her voice floats through the song like a memory you can't quite hold onto, insistent but soft, exposing emotional blind spots in every lyric. It's a sound that's calming and stirring, designed to root you in your feelings and then pull you in deeper.
Taking inspiration from the ethereal nature of her previous works, such as "Evanescent Mind" and "Just Stay 4 Awhile," the song "Love U this Late" is yet another work in Anjalts' widening musical palette. Every song in the forthcoming album is like individual movements of a grand symphony on reflective thinking. Yet this work here is a night-time revelation born of musicality—a sound that calls human beings to listen to their own silence and recognize the truths that emerge. It is for the over-thinkers, the deep feelers, and the ones who don't say much but think a lot.Listen to the gems of Women in Africa #curatedbypowhersound
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