

Isaia Huron
List Pick
July 23, 2026
Isaia Huron downshifts into something slower and softer on 'no way!', leaning into a gentle 80s-leaning groove built on easy drumming and warm, electric synth textures. It's a clear tonal shift from the sleek, warmer R&B of 'This Girl Wants Everything' off Mr. Lovebomb - the album that stretched Huron's fictional love-and-heartbreak narrative across ten tracks. While details are still thin on what's coming next, 'no way!' reads like the first signal of a new chapter. Here, Isaia sings from a place of quiet panic, pleading with a love interest not to walk away now that the feelings have already taken hold. The standout moment lands just past the two-minute mark, where a key change shifts the emotional register mid-plea, followed by a second modulation thirty seconds later - a callback to the kind of pop and R&B songwriting craft that's become increasingly rare. It's a small structural choice, but one that mirrors the unraveling desperation running through the lyrics.









