Suki Summer – LOVESICK AND SICK OF LOVE (2025)
On LOVESICK AND SICK OF LOVE, Suki Summer builds a sonic diary from the remnants of romantic false starts, ghosted text threads, and slow-burn heartbreaks. Her debut EP doesn’t chase perfection, it documents emotional reality with poetic detail and a soft, cinematic touch. It’s not concerned with reinventing indie-pop, but instead chisels new depth into its emotional architecture.
The six-song collection opens with ‘Summer Crush’, a glimmering ode to a queer summer fling. It feels lightweight at first, almost naive, but Summer’s lyrical restraint and melancholic undercurrent hint at what’s to come. That tension between fantasy and fatigue runs like a thread through the EP’s core.
By ‘Marianne’, we’re already immersed in her emotional interior. Here, longing and geography intertwine: a romance written in postcards and disappearing daylight. Her vocals remain hushed, even when the emotion swells; this is heartbreak rendered as memory, not spectacle. The title track, ‘LOVESICK AND SICK OF LOVE’, is the most culturally pointed moment. With observational lyrics and a dispassionate tone, Summer critiques the superficiality of digital-age relationships. The arrangement leans minimal, giving her room to dissect romantic fatigue without melodrama.
On ‘used to you’, the emotional weariness comes to a head. It’s not a breakup song, it’s a resignation letter. The relationship here didn’t explode; it eroded. There’s vulnerability in how Summer lets the production breathe, letting silence speak as much as words. The EP’s most gutting track, ‘i still want u’, follows – a bare-bones, late-night confession that doesn’t ask for closure, only understanding.
The EP ends on ‘outro (it’s nvr bye it’s jus c ya l8r)’, a title that reads like a text you send to avoid a real goodbye. The track plays like emotional decompression, ambient, almost whispered. Rather than offering a grand resolution, Summer chooses peace, or maybe indifference, as her final word.
What makes LOVESICK AND SICK OF LOVE so compelling isn’t just its subject matter, heartbreak is everywhere in pop, but its precision. Suki Summer doesn’t dramatise emotion; she documents it. Her restraint allows space for nuance, especially in a genre that often leans on extremes. This debut may be soft-spoken, but it’s emotionally acute and culturally fluent. Suki Summer isn’t trying to be the next big thing, she’s carving out a lane for honest, intimate storytelling. In a landscape crowded with maximalist emotion, LOVESICK AND SICK OF LOVE thrives in the quiet details.
Find out more about Suki Summer on her Instagram and Spotify.
