Tag: “Gone Tomorrow” (Suzy V song)

It sounds like there’s a touch of reverse delay on the guitar in Suzy V’s “Gone Tomorrow” like a touch of psychedelia in a Flamenco-inflected pop song. Her breathy vocals sound like they’re coming in from another time like a translucent overlay of a narrator in a movie scene lamenting what could have been. The reverb on her singing reinforces the sense of lonely desolation, inconsolable. In some ways the song hearkens to a prologue to a Jim Jarmusch movie because while distinct and concrete it has a fully-integrated, multicultural sensibility and the impression that it is not drawing on a single, fixed, cultural time frame and without topical and specific references to ground the song in a narrow context in which it must have been made. Blending the exotic and the familiar with the classic and modern flourishes in production, Suzy V has crafted a timeless, melancholic, existential composition.