Alice Barlow Confronts the Self on New Single ‘Behind’

Alice Barlow is still most recognized as a member of WOOM, the cult London group, but her solo work has been accumulating its own quiet gravity. Signed to Domino, she returns with “Behind,” a single that feels less like a statement than a private unravelling.

The track is built on a spare, wiry guitar line that wobbles under its own tension. It’s woozy without being loose—each note seems placed to expose something unsettled. Her vocal is hushed and half-withdrawn, as if she’s already mid-escape. The lyric lifts a brief confession: “And I try / To forget / This moment / Bury it…” That impulse toward oblivion is the song’s engine.

Barlow explains, “Behind is about trying to escape yourself, the impulse to go anywhere to leave behind the difficult stuff, but the reality that those feelings will persist wherever you go, until you face them.” It’s an idea she delivers without melodrama. The song doesn’t resolve—it just sits inside that particular exhaustion, tracking the exact point where restlessness turns back on itself.

There’s no grand revelation here, just a slight, downbeat precision that gives the track its weight. For an artist whose group work is often denser and more communal, “Behind” suggests a solo path built on steady, unadorned observation.