Emel Mathlouthi Shares New Song “Footsteps”: Listen

Tunisian experimental singer Emel Mathlouthi has shared a new song called “Footsteps.” It marks her first track sung entirely in English, and is slated to appear on a new album due later this year. Check out the track with the Ahmed Ayed-directed video below.

“‘Footsteps’ was written in upstate New York in the month of November,” Mathlouthi said in a statement. “Inside [an abandoned home], I found multitudes of personal objects like shoes, furniture, and paintings, and it created a sad chaos to see how the history of a rich living past was mixed with the collapsed present… ‘Footsteps’ is a song that’s haunted by this mysterious, rich living past that somebody left behind, agonizing on a fading floor.”

Mathlouthi’s last record was 2017’s Ensen. Read Pitchfork’s Rising feature, “Why the World Needs Emel Mathlouthi’s Anthems Against the Dictatorship Machine.”