“Kiddin’” got Jess Ball noticed in the UK. “Lost On Me” is the one I think will make people stick around.

It’s a different animal. Her last single had a bit of swagger to it; this one looks over its shoulder, back to the friends and family she grew up around in Melbourne and the bits of those years that never really left her. I braced myself for something soppy. It isn’t. She writes about the past like someone taking stock, fond but clear eyed, and that keeps it from turning syrupy.

I hadn’t clocked how much of her history sits in dance music until I went digging. Before going solo she was the voice on records by NERVO, Curbi, Charlie Hedges, Super8 & Tab and Dash Berlin, and the streams across that catalogue have gone past 200 million. It explains a lot about how she handles a melody here. Every line lands exactly where it should, with nothing wasted.

Antoni Polimeni and Richy Sebastian of 1and2 Productions wrote and produced it with her, and they keep the alt pop backing light on its feet, synths sitting low so her voice has the run of the place. My only complaint is that it’s over too quickly.

The video got me more than I expected. Her parents filmed all of it when she was young: birthday parties, afternoons with mates, ordinary family stuff nobody thought twice about at the time. Next to this song, those clips stop feeling like someone else’s home movies and start looking like everyone’s.