Three years after we last spoke with Lily Lane around the release of her sophomore EP, Queen of Hearts, the East Coast artist returns with a track that feels both sharper and lighter on its feet. Higher! arrived a few days ago, slipping into the world with a wink, a spark, and the kind of self-aware warmth Lane has always carried into her storytelling.
Built on soul-leaning vocals and a pop confidence that rarely misses, the new single expands her language of empowerment into something breezier. Lane calls it “my way of turning down the volume,” a line that captures the quiet shift running beneath the track — not escape as avoidance, but as a way of reclaiming space. She leans into humour too, admitting, “I literally sing about needing to light up to calm down… but I'm also talking about something bigger: letting go of the noise and choosing to rise above it.”
Where her earlier releases circled catharsis and desire from different angles, Higher! folds those impulses into a moment that feels both knowingly cheeky and unexpectedly grounded. Lane puts it plainly: “This isn’t just an escapist weed anthem, it’s a ‘HEY, TOUCH GRASS’ moment… and also a ‘hey, it’s okay if you need to smoke grass.’” The track doesn’t try to solve anything; it simply sits in the reality of coping mechanisms and turns them into something soft-edged and melodic.
The single also acts as the final breadcrumb leading into Domesticated, her upcoming EP, out November 28. If this track is any indication, the project sits somewhere between glamour and grit, the place Lane has always felt most electric.