Tallulah Rendall’s seventh album ‘Only Human’ feels like the culmination of everything she has spent years exploring: vulnerability, resilience, creativity, spirituality and the difficult work of finding your way back to yourself.
Across twelve immersive songs, she moves through shame, panic, grief, self-worth and belonging with striking emotional openness, drawing from experiences that include a toxic relationship and the death of her father. The album is deeply personal, but its real strength lies in how determinedly it reaches outward, turning private pain into something we can recognise and inhabit for ourselves.
Opening track ‘Human’ introduces a subtle, organic trip-hop pulse that seems to breathe beneath her voice, setting the tone for an album where atmosphere is never merely decorative. Her love of cinematic soundscapes and 90s aesthetics comes through clearly, with tracks like ‘October Skies’ carrying echoes of the emotional intensity associated with Massive Attack and Portishead.
‘Bold And Free’ brings a more rhythmic, almost tribal energy, while ‘Run’ turns panic and fear into something tense and cinematic. Highlight ‘Shame’ is especially powerful, building into a soaring affirmation of self-worth, before ‘I Belong’ closes the record with a sense of homecoming that feels hard-earned.
Tallulah’s voice is extraordinary throughout. On ‘Pillars’ and ‘Masks’, in particular, it becomes the emotional centre of the arrangement, moving from intimacy to full-bodied release with real force. Strings, percussion and rhythmic guitar rise around her without ever competing for attention.
‘Only Human’ is vulnerable, expansive and deeply affecting. But more than anything, it’s a record about reclaiming space inside yourself, and Tallulah Rendall makes that journey sound genuinely transformative.