Roma Orme is a Kent, England based multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter who released the excellently named debut album The Poster Girl of Impossibility in 2019. Now she’s building up to the release of a new EP called No One Can Tell Us Who To Love next month, which she says “gets up close and personal, like saying to a stranger do you mind if I ask you a personal question, then just asking it without waiting for the answer.”
Evidently Orme’s sense of drama is still very much intact. Today she’s shared the EP’s opener, “Creases”, and it makes good on her quite provocative description.
Underpinned by cinematic stabs of piano and bass, while her voice is wreathed in webs of classical guitar, “Creases” positions Orme as a spooky femme fatale in the midst of a candlelit courtship, being pulled “deep into your creases”. The attraction she feels is utterly intoxicating, and she transmits it to the listener through her ripe singing and imagistic lyrics. One minute they’re making noise in the library, then the court room, the next they’re whipping each other with a cat o’ nine tails – “lash by lash / we get so close so fast,” she sings suggestively. From there, she extrapolates briefly into a dream of a liberal world where everyone can express their deepest desires without any sense of shame. Even for those of us who have never really been tempted by this kind of brutal sexual interaction, Roma Orme makes it sound utterly divine here.
Listen to “Creases” below or find it on your preferred streaming platform.
Roma Orme’s No One Can Tell Us Who To Love EP comes out on October 24. You can find her on Facebook and Instagram.
