BENEE goes deep sea diving through emotional currents on "Underwater"

On her new single "Underwater," BENEE reaffirms that she is unafraid to take the deep dive into emotion. Out as the fifth single of her upcoming debut album "Ur An Angel I'm Just Particles" out November 7 via Republic Records, Los Angeles-based New Zealand artist paints a hauntingly intimate yet softly-stroked soundscape that reflects on feeling only to feel like you're sinking in silence.

Co-written by Matt Castellanos, Matt Cohn, Pablo Bowman, and BENEE (Stella Bennett), and produced by Matt Cohn and Mike Wise, "Underwater" glistens with a dreamlike sense of gravity. The track veers between openness and clarity, with soft waves of synth and rhythm, a delivery pillowed as though coursing through BENEE's voice, like a gentle murmur from the ocean floor. Her lyricism is at once intimate and universal, the experience of concealing weight under easy quiet.

There's something undeniably human about this song's quiet ache, a meditation on emotional buoyancy that's as fragile as it is crushingly sad. "Underwater" further teases "Ur An Angel I'm Just Particles", a project that explores themes of love, identity, and the tenuous nature of connection. If this single is any sign, her next album will beckon listeners to float away, sink in, and resurface on their own terms.

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