Daily Edit | May 29

"Shallow Hits" is mesmeric and synth-heavy. It starts big and throbbing, anchored by Scott MacDonald’s drum pulses. Then, just before the chorus bursts into a shower of crystalline melody, the song pulls back into itself, tightening the suspense. In a press release, Ebbb shared that "Shallow Hits" is about “chasing quick dopamine highs to escape emotional emptiness, and how that can lead to destructive patterns of self-sabotage.” -Stereogum

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