Gerald Slevin, indie pop artist and multi-instrumentalist, released his latest single “It’s Your World (‘Til it’s Over)” on April 30. The single stands in stark contrast to his previous release, the breezy, optimistic “Kiss to the Future” by striking a decidedly darker, more ominous tone. Slevin explains, “There’s a lot of apocalyptic stuff happening these days. A pandemic, a climate catastrophe, mass extinctions. I wanted to make a song about how these large-scale problems intersect with the small-scale level of our own personal anxieties.” Slevin alludes to those anxieties in the verses by singing, “Do you know the answer, but you feel unsure? / Do you hide from the mirror? Or the knock at the door?” The chorus then pivots toward concern for humanity-at-large: “Everywhere I look I see th...
