New Constellations are back with a new release, “I Disappear,” the type of song that sounds less like a performance and more like a confession spoken into headphones in the dark. The Portland-born indie-pop pair, Harlee Case, on vocals, and Josh Smith, a multi-instrumentalist, lean all the way into emotional honesty here, for a song that manages to evoke what it feels like to disappear inside your own head slowly.“I Disappear” is something raw and introspective. It’s a take on anxiety and self-doubt that is not abstract, but an experience of living things that goes into your psyche without you really noticing before it’s kind of too late. There’s a feeling of mental looping woven into the song, an echo of how overwhelming it can be when that inner voice becomes louder than the world around you. The track sits with that discomfort, still somehow nodding to the inherent absurdity of it all while enabling listeners to see themselves reflected in it.
Harlee Pierpoint Case's songwriting feels deeply personal and expresses emotions that many people are unable to put into words. Her delivery has a fragile strength which intimately personalizes the song. Contributing artist Josh Smith, who also co-wrote and produced with Michael McGarity, offers a stark production that embodies the emotional profundity of the song rather than competing with it, allowing ample room for Konar’s vocals to resonate. “I Disappear” so gripping is its restraint. There is nothing that feels forced or overpolished. The song follows its feelings, letting them unfold as they will. And that honesty is what makes it powerful. It does not beg us to care, it simply takes up room in being. It earns our care by being itself.
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