Today, the Alabama-raised, Brooklyn-based artist A.G. Sully announces Orbit, a new EP exploring the gravitational push and pull of a long-distance love out February 12. She also shares a new track off the project, “Psyche.” A hazy collision of shifty jazz-soul harmonics and the deliberate pulse of trip-hop, “Psyche” packs a surfeit of romantic wisdom and sticky melody into a deceptively simple package. Listen to “Psyche” here and pre-save Orbit here.

“Psyche” follows recent single “Are you willing to change?” which received praise from The New York Times, The FADER, Pigeons & Planes, and more. Listen to “Are you willing to change?” here.

Of “Psyche,” A.G. Sully says: “I wrote Psyche about the guilty conscience I had during a (failed) attempt at an open relationship. It was one of the first songs I made after moving to Brooklyn, just learning to self-produce. New York provided me with a newfound confidence, and access to a lot of new ideas that I’d never heard of coming from a traditional southern home — one being non-monogamy (I know, very Bushwick of me). My boyfriend and I at the time thought it could be good for us, and I’ll admit, I really wanted it to work. However when the moment came, I couldn’t help but feel so guilty. Maybe it’s my deep southern roots, maybe I’m just too sensitive, too in love, or maybe it’s just not for everyone. Within a week we decided it was too painful, and I wrote Psyche in my bedroom, starting with the line ‘never meant to hurt you darling, you know I love you.’”

A.G. Sully’s music boasts a worn-in, dream-like quality, unfurling in the in-between hours where the air hangs heavy with both possibility and unresolved sentiment — the almost spiritual quality of its soft-spoken intonation and exhalation originating from a youth spent singing in church. Attending college in nearby Tennessee, she discovered the world outside of the Christian music that was ubiquitous in her youth, and quit school to focus on trying her hand at writing non-secular music.

Orbit comes nine years after she spent carving out a name for herself in the Nashville music scene, honing her soulful voice and compositional acumen, before landing in Brooklyn. Out of necessity, she taught herself music production — building an idiosyncratic sonic identity from the lonely quietude of her sublet. Orbit is the product of the expressive freedom of her solo life in New York, creating a daily routine and enjoying the anonymity that comes with moving to a new city.

A.G. Sully’s private creative renaissance coincided with the start of a long-distance relationship which brought her into intimate contact with the deepest notions of yearning, devotion, and surrender — emotions captured in her sensuous reveries of the trip-hop, dream-pop, and Quiet Storm R&B that make up the EP’s sound world.

If there is one prevailing emotion encapsulated by the seven songs on Orbit, it’s hopefulness rather than obsession, and the palpable electricity that comes with waiting for something to happen. That initial spark, drawn out into something real. Orbit is the space she has assembled to feel most comfortable in herself, a hub where her most intense emotions have time to be deconstructed.