“Older” by Lizzy McAlpine

Lizzy McAlpine made "Older" the title track and lead single of her third album, and RCA sent it out on February 13, 2024, as she unveiled the record as the follow-up to 2022's Five Seconds Flat. She wrote it with Mason Stoops and Taylor Mackall, then recorded and produced it with Stoops in Los Angeles.

It's a pared-back ballad about the strange ache of growing up, built at its core on voice, piano and electric guitar, and it has been called gut-wrenching. Mackall plays the piano and Stoops the bass, Jesse Honig and Greg Koller engineered, and Andrew Sarlo mixed. Exclaim! heard an echo of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now" in the way it opens.

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