Manchester-based artist Phoebe Green‘s latest release floods your ears with a synth-fuelled alternative pop sound.
The single, released on the 19th of June and titled ‘There’s Always Someone Kicking The Seat’, hits hard and fast with a striking and sharp electronic sound, in contrast to Green’s typically softer impression previously heard on their 2025 EP, ‘The Container’. The song depicts Green’s tinted perspective on their first sapphic heartbreak: begrudgingly feeling stuck, denied the typical grandeur of breakups.
Fittingly, this release will be the lead single for their upcoming album, ‘PREMATURE NOSTALGIA’, set to be released in October of this year and launching after the artist’s recent feature on the soundtrack for the newly released film, Finding Emily. The collaborative inclusion of artist and producer, Lucy Green, known professionally as elucyve, adds another level of love and loss, and emphasises Green’s vulnerability, as the pair are siblings.
Delicately describing the last glimpses of possibility and familiar attachment, the song feels largely melancholic, bittersweet and gnawingly despondent towards moving on. This mesh of complicated feelings pairs well with the rush of fierceness on the track, taking over from the lyrics in the latter half of the song and mimicking the bombardment of emotions and the way they overwhelm the senses. Ultimately, the song closes with reverberating synths echoing against muffled lyrics. This single is exactly as Green describes their music on social media: devastating alt pop.
Kelsey Catherine Walker
Image: ‘There’s Always Someone Kicking The Seat’ Official Single Cover
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