Poesie will release ‘Undress Me’ on 13th August, the third single from forthcoming EP Nature Mother. After the ecological unease of ‘Curious Eve’ and the anti-tech tension of ‘Circuit Break’, this time she brings things much closer to the skin: desire, intimacy and the strange bravery involved in letting somebody see you properly.
There is vulnerability here, but Poesie refuses to make sensuality solemn. ‘Undress Me’ is playful, expressive and knowingly sexy, built around a groovy bassline, an earworm chorus and live drums that skip between time signatures without disturbing the song’s easy movement. It also has the slightly dangerous quality of making its invitation sound rather difficult to refuse.
Desire without the shame attached
Poesie has always seemed happiest when an idea can live inside something you might dance to. ‘Curious Eve’ paired sharp observation with ecological concern, while ‘Circuit Break’ found movement inside anti-tech frustration. ‘Undress Me’ keeps the body at the centre, but now the invitation is personal rather than political.
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The first verse makes that shift feel especially revealing. Poesie sings about having gone so long without desiring somebody that she had started to wonder whether that part of herself had disappeared. When it comes roaring back, she does not tiptoe around it. Hunger, impatience and wanting to be wanted all tumble into the same space.
That change of focus suits her almost suspiciously well. There is no shame hanging over the attraction, but there are nerves around its edges, which makes the confidence much more charming. Poesie sounds as though she knows she is flirting, knows it is working and is having far too much fun pretending she might not.
The bassline gives everything a loose, flirtatious bounce, while the drums stop the track from settling into anything too obvious. Their movement between time signatures adds a restless little skip beneath a chorus that settles in almost immediately. It feels as though the song is trying not to grin too widely and failing.
Poesie co-wrote the single with Fionn Connolly, who also produced and mixed it, while Nick Powell handled mastering. Inspirations including Chappell Roan, Blondie and Madonna make sense around a track this interested in pop pleasure, performance and confidence in its own desire, but ‘Undress Me’ has enough personality to make those names feel like background rather than blueprint.
‘Undress Me’ review
‘Undress Me’ gets deliciously mischievous whenever confidence and nerves start tripping over each other. Poesie can ask directly for what she wants and still let a little breathlessness slip through, which is far sexier than pretending intimacy comes with perfect composure. She sounds like she is having an indecent amount of fun, and it is difficult not to get swept up in it.
The chorus is wonderfully direct, moving from wanting somebody’s body to describing touch as chemistry and poetry. It could have become overwrought in different hands, but the groove keeps everything light on its feet. The bass has a delicious pull, the drums keep twitching underneath and Poesie delivers the whole thing with enough sparkle to stop sweetness becoming syrup.
Then she gets even cheekier. A knock at the door barely has time to register before clothes are already coming off, and the lyric about enjoying how her partner follows her lead gives the song a playful sense of control. Even the move towards getting “experimental” lands with a grin rather than a dramatic flourish.
The best joke arrives after the room has apparently been thoroughly shaken. Having built this private little universe of bodies, chemistry and blurred edges, Poesie suddenly wonders whether breakfast should be eggs or cereal. It is funny because it punctures any temptation to make sex sound impossibly glamorous. Sometimes transcendence apparently ends with deciding what is in the kitchen cupboard.
That little domestic turn also makes the intimacy sweeter. ‘Undress Me’ is not interested only in lust, even if it is having plenty of fun there. By the final stretch, repeated declarations of love start spilling through the chorus until the song barely bothers separating desire from affection anymore.
And yes, Poesie makes herself enormously easy to fancy here. Not through posing, but through personality: wit, nerve, softness, appetite and those flashes of uncertainty beneath all the teasing confidence. It feels like being flirted with by somebody who is letting you see the nerves behind the smile, which is considerably more charming than perfection ever could be.
The closing rush of ‘I love you!’ is the perfect payoff. After all the bass, teasing and barely contained impatience, affection comes spilling out almost faster than the song can hold it. Lust has not merely brought its heart along. By the end, it has practically thrown the heart onto the bed and forgotten where it left its clothes.
‘Undress Me’ feels like a natural third piece of the picture Poesie is building towards Nature Mother, which launches at Paper Dress Vintage on 28th October. ‘Curious Eve’ could question, ‘Circuit Break’ could bristle and move, and now ‘Undress Me’ gives pleasure permission to be silly, tender, hungry and gloriously unembarrassed. It is the kind of song that blushes, winks and then asks what you want for breakfast.
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