Austel Explores Human Condition on Latest Track “I’m No Home”

Austel drops her latest single "I’m No Home" – and wow, it hits different. The London-based singer-songwriter’s back with her first release since that stunning debut album Dead Sea earlier this year.

This track? It’s basically Austel wrestling with that age-old question we all face: who the hell are we, really? She puts it beautifully, musing that "the unending act of seeking ‘wholeness’ is perhaps what is so complex and beautiful about being alive."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8TmLHRiuBY

The production’s intimate yet expansive. Starting with delicate notes from her grandmother’s piano (talk about personal touches), it gradually blooms into this lush soundscape of synths and harmonies.

Collaborators Heren Wolf, BLÁNID, and Liv Marshall lend their voices to the mix. Austel handled the mixing herself – impressive stuff.

Those trademark warm vocals deliver the gut-punch lyrics: but I’m no home/I’m no closer to loving/I’m no home/I’m no closer to learning to let go. It’s that feeling when you don’t recognize yourself in the mirror, you know? That anxiety of being disconnected from who you think you should be.

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The single’s accompanied by this gorgeous shot from a Norwegian mountain. Apparently, Austel’s got a serious "craving for biophilia" – nature’s way of putting our human drama into perspective. Sometimes you need those vast landscapes to remind you how small (and beautifully insignificant) we really are.