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\u201cMy whole life just seemed like a cloud of fog,\u201d Rosie Carney<\/a> states frankly on her website, sharing explicit details about\u00a0the pain she’s experienced: bullying, sexual assaults, an eating disorder, being dropped from a major label at the age of seventeen. Now twenty, it\u2019s no wonder \u00a0Carney, who hails from Ireland, has such a haunting voice. But on her single \u201cAwake Me,\u201d lyrics like \u201cI\u2019ve been a fool for more than half of my life, I\u2019ve tried to hide\/ Awake me,\u201d seem to show that she is confronting and\u00a0<\/span>overcoming her past. Not that she needs to claim any great sorrow to be taken seriously as a singer – she\u2019s able to express multitudes even when her voice\u00a0hovers close to a whisper, and create mountains of tension just by lingering on a pause. All that accompanies her voice are simple, repetitive guitar arpeggios, but as her voice ascends higher and higher in spirals toward the end of the song, it’s easy to imagine her leaving behind the fog, the bullies, the stigma of mental illness – everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

Find some release and resolve in the gorgeous track below:<\/p>\n