Suki Waterhouse single review: ‘On This Love’

Suki Waterhouse’s dreamy vocals take centre stage on this sultry new single.

On This Love Single Cover.

Indie songstress Suki Waterhouse has just dropped her newest single, On This Love, a seductive dive into the aftermath of a tumultuous affair. Once more, she proves her ability to consistently deliver thoughtful and evocative pop tunes.

On This Love follows a run of dreamy standalone tracks like Pushing Daisies and Dream Woman, hinting that Suki might be building toward a new body of work to follow last year’s Memoir of a Sparklemuffin.

Similar to the rest of her discography, the record has an ethereal quality sure to transfix the listener. There’s a hazy dream-pop atmosphere running through it, delicate yet emotionally weighty. The instrumentation is understated but carefully layered, akin to the stylings of a classic Lana Del Rey track.

A plucky, echoing guitar leads us through the verses before erupting into a moody and sensual electric guitar in the chorus. The contrast between the two perfectly encapsulates the emotional rollercoaster of the relationship at hand.

But the true centrepiece of this track is Suki’s stunning vocal performance. Her voice, breathy and vulnerable, is simply entrancing as she helplessly pleads with her lover.

The lyrics effectively draw parallels between the addictive qualities of both love and drugs. “I could OD on this love”, Suki proclaims in the chorus, following tightly crafted verses which beautifully detail the story of this doomed relationship: “You won't settle down with a damsel distressed. And I won't keep a man if he loves his mistress”. It’s songwriting that feels like an open wound dressed up in velvet, painful truths cloaked in poetic beauty.

Suki Waterhouse simply never misses, and On This Love is no exception.