Queen Anne's 'Greyhound' is a song about the agony of waiting for someone who's already emotionally left the room, paired with the image of a dog that can be perfectly calm one second and gone at full speed the next.
Katie Silverman describes 'Greyhound' as her most vulnerable release to date, and the premise immediately proves why. The song centres on the humiliating, familiar feeling of scanning a party for someone who has forgotten you are even there, then pushes deeper into the stranger territory of loving someone you no longer particularly respect.
Queen Anne have already established themselves through dark, ethereal pop and an unmistakable 80s-inflected edge, and 'Greyhound' sounds ideally suited to that world. The track’s sharpness comes from the collision between emotional exposure and a cooler, more stylish surface, allowing vulnerability to arrive without becoming melodramatic.
Her fascination with greyhounds sounds almost like a joke at first (their speed, calm temperament and absurdly narrow heads all finding their way into her explanation of the song), but it actually makes the metaphor stranger and better. A greyhound can appear gentle and still vanish in seconds.
Following 'Watch Me Win It', 'BabyGirl Like To Lie', 'Lexi Loves Me', 'Real Enough' and their atmospheric reworking of David Bowie's 'Let's Dance', 'Greyhound' isa natural continuation of the duo’s ability to make emotional unease feel stylish, melodic and slightly uncanny.
Have a listen to 'Greyhound' in the player below.