Edwina van Kuyk’s new single, Floating, arrives with an effortless sense of calm, offering a graceful departure from the emotional intensity of her gospel-infused anthem Here To Stay. Where her previous release carried a sense of conviction and emotional weight, Floating chooses instead to inhabit a lighter, more reflective space. It is a song that understands the value of restraint, creating an atmosphere where warmth, movement and serenity can coexist.
At the centre of the track is Van Kuyk’s distinctive jazz vocal, delivered with the kind of assuredness that makes even the gentlest phrasing feel purposeful. Her voice carries both intimacy and sophistication, giving the song an organic quality that prevents its calmness from ever becoming passive. There is an understated confidence in the performance, as though Van Kuyk is less interested in commanding the listener’s attention than in creating a space where attention can naturally settle.
The warm electric piano provides an especially inviting foundation, giving Floating a soft glow around which its upbeat melodies can unfold. This contrast is one of the song’s most appealing qualities. The track feels peaceful without being sleepy, buoyant without becoming hurried. Its rhythmic lightness gives the impression of moving freely rather than moving towards a particular destination, perfectly reflecting the title and its central idea of release.
There is also something quietly timely about the song’s refusal to rush. In a musical landscape often driven by immediacy and emotional maximalism, Floating offers another kind of experience. It does not demand urgency or manufacture drama. Instead, Van Kuyk finds musical expression in the simple act of stepping back, breathing and allowing the moment to exist on its own terms. The result feels refreshing precisely because it leaves room for the listener to simply be.
With Floating, Edwina van Kuyk demonstrates that serenity can be just as compelling as intensity. The song possesses a gentle sophistication, balancing jazz-inflected vocals, glowing keys and buoyant melodies into a sound that feels both polished and deeply human. Following the emotional force of Here To Stay, this new release reveals another dimension of her artistry, one rooted not in struggle or declaration, but in ease. Floating is ultimately a graceful reminder that sometimes the most restorative musical journeys are the ones that ask us to stop striving and simply drift.
“I’ve always been someone who dreams big, and there’s often this pressure to know exactly where you’re going,” she said, speaking about the track. “At the moment, I’m learning to lean into the uncertainty. You don’t have to have it figured out all of the time. Sometimes it’s nice to just be floating.”
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