Haley Fishberger's "Home (305)" is a love letter in melody

Haley Fishberger is coming through with something smaller yet mightier with her latest single, "Home (305)." Written somewhere between sky and soul, literally midflight from Miami to Los Angeles, the track drifts in like a memory you never realized you wanted to relive. What distinguishes Haley Fishberger isn't simply her talent for crafting a winning song; it's her talent for emoting it into being. In shy of four minutes, "Home (305)" doesn't bite off more than it can chew but doesn't need to. Instead, it exists in the in-between spaces, between childhood and adulthood, between goodbye and 'see you soon'.

And as lovely as the instrumentation can be in its restraint, the attention is always drawn to Haley's voice. There's a rawness in her voice, a gentle assertiveness that doesn't need to raise its voice to be heard, but in the small moments, the pause taken between lines, the slight rise in her voice while reminiscing about Home, that the song's emotional core becomes most pronounced.

Having gotten everyone's ears twitching with her stunner of a track, here we have Haley showing that lightning does strike twice, and it's possible not to come again, and she's been working since she was 14. This artist has a solid foundation, but she's all set to take flight. And if "Home (305)" is any indication of what we can expect from her, she won't be sheepishly returning home; instead, she's fiercely returning home gracefully, emotively, and with a voice that's hard to ignore.

"Home (305)" is a stripped-down piano ballad with polished string swells, a meditation on what Home is. A tender, honest ode to Miami, the city where Haley was raised, it pins down that particular sting of memories you get only when leaving somewhere that made you. You are invited into Haley's world, a place where every single line feels like it should have come from the margins of a boarding pass sung straight from the heart.