From Silence to Sound: TAMS/N Breaks Free With Her New Single "Wallow"

August 25, 2025

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 got the sheen of the '80s, the drama of a power ballad, and the exposure of someone who knows how heavy silence can be.

It's a defiance, to be sure—but a sensual melancholy too, an edginess that makes the strength of it somehow earned. That saxophone that blazes through the final seconds of the track doesn't merely decorate the soundscape; it blasts the heart wide open. It is grief with electricity running through it, liberty ablaze, a voice that will not be stilled. Through every note, TAMS/N stands as proof that art may be both thorn and salve, both prison and key.

Already her songs have seeped into unsolicited moments of culture—from TV screens on The Project to trending TikTok clips posted by actors and influencers. With a small but loyal fanbase, she's in the ranks of artists like Chappell Roan, Lana Del Rey, and Dido—yet she's creating her own dramatic sketch on the horizon. Wallow is not just the second Whiskey Sour single, her debut album; it is a declaration, glass wings, a soaring spirit.