Amid a world of disposable hooks and songs gone before the lifetime of the fly, Twisted Linguistics gives you something else, something deeper in their new single, “Sometimes.” Here, on a single with the spellbinding Dana D. and Midwest underground piano virtuoso Mesh One, the track heals and hovers in your chest long after the last note has fallen away. “Sometimes” felt like a hushed revelation. Piano work by Mesh One forms the heart and soul of the song, stitching together a sonic landscape that feels equal parts sentimental and forward-thinking. It’s that kind of song that hooks you in immediately, like an old photograph you forgot you were meant to remember.

Then there is Dana D., breezing in with a chorus that sounds almost otherworldly. Her touch beings floating in delicate, aching, angelic heads of sound, a mist that encircles your thoughts. It’s haunting in the best way, like the voice of a dream you can’t remember. Twisted Linguistics, whose earthbound lyrics yank the listener down to earth with a voice that’s lived-in, knowing, and unafraid of service for the sake of the in-between. His delivery is consistently, quietly, unsentimentally truthful, the sort of storytelling that doesn’t run begging for attention and commands it nonetheless. There’s a nice tension here that works wonderfully, the supernatural versus the earthly, the seen versus the felt.

The push and pull makes “Sometimes” an experience you feel and remember. “Sometimes” is remarkable, above all, for its refusal to be pinned down. It’s available without being cheap. Emotional without being heavy-handed. But Twisted Linguistics and company aren’t just producing music, they’re making moments that make you stop, breathe, and think. With this song, Twisted Linguistics further crafts an inimitable aesthetic of their own, something that explores vulnerability, memory, and the imperfect humanity in which it was born. “Sometimes” is a number of things and a quiet triumph.