The South African-born singer hits you right in the feels with debut single.

It’s pretty rare that you play a track and within a few moments you are completely hooked. It’s almost as if you greedily want to rush through and see where the tune will take you after hearing a only few bars, but you’re also enjoying every moment so you want it to slow down as well. ‘Your Mum’ by Ruby Gill is doing all that for us.

Proving that it doesn’t take a big band to knock you onto you behind, just crafty songwriting and an enormous vocal performance, the track only consists of only three layers – guitars and a couple of vocals. Big call, but we’d say it’s even comparable to Jeff Buckley’s knack for hitting the right highs and lows at just the right times, and carrying the listener along effortlessly.

Lyrically, the track centres around accepting your emotions. “We fall in love with people who remind us a little bit of our parents, But then, in a burst of 2am Freudian clarity and angst, we realise that those are pretty stifling expectations. So this is about being not good enough. About trying to be yourself in someone else’s kitchen. About admitting that you’re not f*cking fine. And it’s about your mum,” Ruby says.

Ruby Gill will be hitting the road with Lime Cordiale over November and December as part of their ‘Dirt Cheap’ tour (info here), and also playing her own headliner in Melbourne on November 25th (info here), and stay tuned for more – we know we will be.