Featured Tune: "Off The Lanterns" from Avenues

Between Shadows and Light: Avenues Find Their Voice in “Off The Lanterns”

There’s a stillness to “Off The Lanterns” that hits you in waves. It doesn’t shout for your attention — it whispers, gently, like a breeze through a quiet street at dusk. Avenues, in their latest reimagining of the 2020 track, deliver something that feels deeply personal yet universally resonant.

This version — touched up with delicate piano and recorded live — feels less like a song and more like a moment captured in amber. You can almost hear the silence between the notes, the weight of time passing. It’s stripped back but rich, meditative but never dull. The vocals carry a soft ache, as if the singer is holding back tears or holding onto hope — maybe both.

What’s most compelling is how the track functions as part of a larger emotional narrative. The EP is meant to be a bridge, and “Off The Lanterns” is the keystone — standing between the ache of the past and the anticipation of what’s to come. It’s easy to imagine this playing late at night, lanterns dim, while you reflect on everything you’ve lost, and everything you're still holding onto.

Avenues have created something rare: a song that doesn’t just play — it breathes. “Off The Lanterns” is an echo from the past that lights the way forward.