- 2025-06-06
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MUSIC
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CHINCHILLA Releases New Song “Avoidance”
London-based singer-songwriter CHINCHILLA released her brand new song “Avoidance” on June 5, 2025.
The song is the first single of 2025 and follows the 2024 two EPs “Flytrap” and “Live: Summer '24”.
Also, it is the first released from her upcoming trilogy.
CHINCHILLA wrote the track during a stressful period of burnout and recorded it in just 45 minutes.
It was written by CHINCHILLA, Mark West, and Nicolas Rebscher. Produced by Mark West and Nicolas Rebscher.
The accompanying a lyric video was directed by Frances O'Sullivan.
CHINCHILLA said of the song, “I wrote this when I was in a period of a lot of stress/burn out - I released 'Little Girl Gone' and it was viral and changing my life and I was running the project completely alone, no time to eat/sleep etc… I was also going through this break up and on my way to a writing session I received a message that sent me into an anxiety attack. I kept thinking 'noooo I can't feel like this right now' which I guess made it worse.”- She continued, “I felt like I could handle everything music wise however big or small - but I couldn't handle facing the pain my heart was feeling behind those distractions, it was really excruciating to be honest. I guess at that time I felt frozen and couldn't respond at all – all I wanted to do was avoid it all and put my head under the duvet until it went away. I didn't know how to cope with the anxiety of it all. I arrived at my writing session and although we were meant to work on another song, the feeling was overbearing and all I could do in that moment was write about this.”
She added, “We wrote and recorded it in 45 minutes and I've always been really attached to the song capturing a really raw moment. No lyric was rewritten, it was just a real bleed of emotions. When finishing the song we tried everything to build up the production but nothing felt like it had the magic of the original version - so the final song is mainly just that.” -
CHINCHILLA shared on social media, “This is the rawest version of myself I could possibly give you. I wrote it in 45 minutes after receiving a message that sent me into an anxiety attack, and I've barely touched the demo since because nothing felt right to add. It just perfectly captured a moment. Me and a guitar and a bunch of anxiety and heartbreak. I hope it hugs you like it hugs me. Man I can't even explain what this song means to me.”
Photo by Frances O'Sullivan - source : Apple Music
