A stirring track out today from Australian artist Mark Howard, “My Girl Is On Fire” conveys admiration for beauty, inside and out. For the track, Howard was inspired by his wife, and that admiration inspired a track that celebrates female strength in general. Ahead of an upcoming full-length in February 2025, “My Girl Is On Fire” certainly consumes in its confident arsenal — sweltering in its overall mystique and sense of undying love.

“She lights up the room,” Howard lets out with immersive suaveness, marveling within a title-touting refrain that melds with hypnotic bass and chilly woodwind feelings. A smitten engrossment takes hold in the lyrical realm, with the “ashes rain down,” description of infatuation arising compellingly into a western-y cinematic twanginess. The concluding resemblances — “she’s sudden death, she’s dragon’s breath,” — cement the debonair, enveloped captivation. “My Girl Is On Fire” is a thorough success from Mark Howard, with its eerie yet inviting tone a perfect fit for Halloween.

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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.

We discovered this release via MusoSoup, as part of the artist’s promotional campaign.

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