There’s a stillness in ‘Sometimes’ that feels completely unforced. AC Scott, the songwriting name of Alison Craig release a debut single that’s quiet, unhurried, and utterly disarming.
The song began as a private moment: the first thing she ever wrote, at her father’s old desk, in the wake of a diagnosis that changed everything for her. What she captured there has the kind of honesty that can’t be reverse-engineered. A few piano chords, and a voice that’s clear and unguarded, a little weathered at the edges but beautifully so. The production, by Andrew Rollins, keeps everything bare enough that nothing gets in the way of the feeling.
There are ghosts of Carole King and Joni Mitchell in the phrasing, yes, but this is her own current, her own tide. Craig has spent a lifetime speaking for others: as a radio host, TV presenter, novelist. But here she sounds like she’s stepped into the room of her own sound and left the door open.
Watch the music video for ‘Sometimes’ on YouTube.
The image of her writing at her father’s old desk, in the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis, sets the emotional tone. And then the music—simple piano chords, a voice that doesn’t hide—becomes the vessel for something deeply personal.