How did your hometown make you feel this Christmas? Old haunts, past lovers and faces you’d rather forget? For her long awaited debut single, Ana Silvera has rendered that weirdly emotional push/pull of familiarity into an achingly beautiful love song to her own hometown of London.

With her rich evocative voice, Ana takes on the persona of an unnamed body, whose eyes are now ‘food for fishes/served on sea dishes’ lying at the bottom of the Thames, singing to us who are still earthbound: “I wanted to suggest that death can perhaps be as much a liberation as a tragedy, that there may be more than one side to that tale, as sad as it may seem at first.”

The video directed by New York based Ryan Foregger (Ben Kweller, My Brightest Diamond) conjures up the eerie yet tender story, as Ana sings from the waters to her bereft lover. Her lyrical style invokes well-trodden streets, farewell kisses and rivers that exert their hold on you long after the Christmas presents are put away. This is one Hometown guaranteed to leave you wanting a return visit.